By Liz Stinson
If you’re connected to a wireless network, odds are high that little bits of data are trickling out of your device like water from a leaky faucet. “Our phones leak data in a bunch of different ways,” says artist Kyle McDonald. “Sometimes it’s really insidious or unexpected.”
Recently at Moogfest, a music and technology festival in Durham, N.C., McDonald with the help of fellow artist Surya Mattu created an installation called WiFi Whisperer that called attention to all that data your phone is giving away for free.
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/wifi-whisperer-stalks-phones-data-creepiest-way-possible/
‘Wifi Whisperer’ Siphons Your Data in the Creepiest Way Possible
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Well, kudos for developing the 'Whispere' but I hardly think that this is something new. Still, if it helps to highlight to the unknowing just how these things happen and what potentially is being 'leaked' then one more tool to do this is no bad thing...IMHO.
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