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Comcast Plans Cable Boxes with Integrated Wi-Fi and Snooping

Posted by michael on from the all-in-one dept.

Kaa writes "Short version: Comcast's cable modem/802.11g base station that is made by Linksys has capabilities to 'phone home' to Comcast and tell them how many devices are connected to your WiFi base station, how much bandwidth they are using, etc. It also has the capability to 'disable LAN segments' which, I assume, means they can kick your devices off your home network if they choose to do so. Something tells me this particular device won't make it into my house..."

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  1. 2nd Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NM

  2. *ATTN MODS* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It has become painfully obvious to me that this user, LostCluster, is not really a user. Rather it is some group of people who are collectivly using /. to promote the link in their sig.

    Now I really don't care too much about the self promotion but rather the fact that this "users" comments get mod'ed up quickly even if they are clueless/offtopic/painfully obvious. The reason for this is most likely simple, the people in question most likely have a group of other accounts that they post with and use whatever mod points they get with them to all mod up the "LostCluster" account.

    As such I, for one, will take it upon myself to mod each "LostCluster" post down every chance I get. I would suggest that others do the same so that we don't have to deal with this type of "advertisement" within /. anymore.