Advice for tracking down a listening device?
I have a neighbor with an ex-boyfriend stalker who seems to have information from conversations within her house. The stalker police (I don't know the proper name - it's a group within the Zürich police) have offered to scan her home for bugs but they want her to first check her router for suspicious wifi devices. She's not technical at all and has asked me to help. Also, the stalker is not technical at all either but he's done some impressive things using advice from chatGPT. It is probably just a consumer device. Has anyone had experience with this? Some thoughts I've had are: - The police say that a battery-operated device that is sound-activated can function a very long time. How long? - Do consumer listening devices spoof their MAC address to appear to be a different manufacturer, for example Apple? - Do consumer listener devices connect to wifi only sporadically, when it's time to upload information? (in this case I'd have to find some way to turn on logging on her router) For anyone that has had to track down a listening device, how did you do it? 1 comments on Hacker News.
I have a neighbor with an ex-boyfriend stalker who seems to have information from conversations within her house. The stalker police (I don't know the proper name - it's a group within the Zürich police) have offered to scan her home for bugs but they want her to first check her router for suspicious wifi devices. She's not technical at all and has asked me to help. Also, the stalker is not technical at all either but he's done some impressive things using advice from chatGPT. It is probably just a consumer device. Has anyone had experience with this? Some thoughts I've had are: - The police say that a battery-operated device that is sound-activated can function a very long time. How long? - Do consumer listening devices spoof their MAC address to appear to be a different manufacturer, for example Apple? - Do consumer listener devices connect to wifi only sporadically, when it's time to upload information? (in this case I'd have to find some way to turn on logging on her router) For anyone that has had to track down a listening device, how did you do it?
I have a neighbor with an ex-boyfriend stalker who seems to have information from conversations within her house. The stalker police (I don't know the proper name - it's a group within the Zürich police) have offered to scan her home for bugs but they want her to first check her router for suspicious wifi devices. She's not technical at all and has asked me to help. Also, the stalker is not technical at all either but he's done some impressive things using advice from chatGPT. It is probably just a consumer device. Has anyone had experience with this? Some thoughts I've had are: - The police say that a battery-operated device that is sound-activated can function a very long time. How long? - Do consumer listening devices spoof their MAC address to appear to be a different manufacturer, for example Apple? - Do consumer listener devices connect to wifi only sporadically, when it's time to upload information? (in this case I'd have to find some way to turn on logging on her router) For anyone that has had to track down a listening device, how did you do it? 1 comments on Hacker News.
I have a neighbor with an ex-boyfriend stalker who seems to have information from conversations within her house. The stalker police (I don't know the proper name - it's a group within the Zürich police) have offered to scan her home for bugs but they want her to first check her router for suspicious wifi devices. She's not technical at all and has asked me to help. Also, the stalker is not technical at all either but he's done some impressive things using advice from chatGPT. It is probably just a consumer device. Has anyone had experience with this? Some thoughts I've had are: - The police say that a battery-operated device that is sound-activated can function a very long time. How long? - Do consumer listening devices spoof their MAC address to appear to be a different manufacturer, for example Apple? - Do consumer listener devices connect to wifi only sporadically, when it's time to upload information? (in this case I'd have to find some way to turn on logging on her router) For anyone that has had to track down a listening device, how did you do it?
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