and into you computer for a listen in.
There has been lots of talk on the net about people talking to you via your TV, your computer, your fridge, your kettle etc. and you would think, “leave it out I am busy”.
With the relatively new devices available for internet through your powerline you would want to know what else will this new technology bring into your home.
Sharing the same cable with broadband and the electric current that gives light to your light bulb.
You don’t really know where your powerline has been before it gets into your home and where it goes after it has left your home. It could come in attached itself to your computer and then listen in to what you do, or type and even conversations in your home. It is not hacking as such where all your files can be downloaded or your computer hard disc gets corrupted by a virus. This is just listening in without you knowing. There are no ripples caused in its activity, until you start looking into it.
So lets look at what would allow modulated speech to travel along your powerline.
It would be these 2 gadgets:
Th set up is:
So now you can play music from your computer in 1 room and hifi-take-five stereo in another room. The music is taken to your stereo
system in another room through your powerline via a wall plug, the same one that you would plug your computer or TV.
I tested this with only an amplified speaker at the other end and not a full stereo system and it still worked.
I was shocked at what I found and jumped out off my seat when I heard it.
You see, you either know it or you don’t. How much am I influenced by subliminals? such that my work is not my own anymore. If the gadgets in my home can influence me unknowingly then I need to keep them switch off all the time and that included your light bulbs. Not possible.
I noticed by chance that I could talk into my computer’s microphone and it would travel down the powerline and sound itself at the speaker in the other room. In my case I had the program Audacity running on record so it would record what I was saying and at the same time passing it down the powerline to the speakers.
At my speakers there was a 2.5mm audio jack that I could use to record what came down the powerline. So I connected a recorder into the speakers. When I spoke, my words would travel down the powerline and into the recorder. I did not expect to hear anything else except my voice.
This is what I got: (you can click on the image to see detail)
“we’ll hang you” is not mine, but a reply to my taunting.
My grey cell’s woke up on hearing this and I “fell off” my seat when I heard this recording because I did call the guy a few things thinking there was
nobody down that powerline listening in. Then I thought: is it possible that it did not come down that powerline but rather as I have been doing talking to the microphone on the computer. Perhaps a stray voice into the computer when I was in the other room setting up the recorder.
You can see here it did not come in through the microphone which was recorded by “Audacity” but it did appear after it had travelled down the powerline. That does not mean it cannot do the same also for your computer as I have shown in other articles earlier that unknown chatter can appear in recordings from your computer.
Or a kettle playing music that comes down the powerline:
in-ear headphones will make it a better exoerience.
Here I had the “transmitter” in the living room and the kettle in the kitchen and an external recorder beside the kettle.
The music was played from my computer. There is no sound in the rooms apart from the kettle boiling in the kitchen as the sound in the computer is configured for the Dlan Duo and hence the speakers are disabled. At the other end in the kitchen the audio extender was disconnected from the speakers.
The gadgets around your house will pick up on any modulation in your powerline and in this case it was music.
It is not that your kettle can play music that is the problem here, but the subliminals that can come to you via your powerline and the gadgets in your home playing them out to you. I am sure that the modulation in the power line will create a similar electromagnetic field in the air and the electromagnetic field created forming a matrix that would be ever present around you and would cover you like a blanket, sending subliminals to you and probably also listening in to your conversations via your powerline. Your home one big listening device, to the whole city a humongous listening device via the your street lamps, your traffic lights, your underground stations, your buses, your hospitals, all the public spaces, your parks, schools, universities, on an aeroplane, hotels, shopping malls – I am sure you can add a few more yourself. And it all started because we needed a little light in the dark with the discovery of electricity!
I think technologies have been developed which we do not know about or is not being put out there for the public to know.
But you can see all your gadgets in your home can be used as a listening device. These 2 little devices is only a precursor to a larger more establish set up, like your internet servers that will monitor the city and your homes.
I recommend that you mute your computer unless you are using it to listen to music or better still disable your microphone.
Anything you type could possibly go down your powerline with a keyboard logger at the other end. Your conversations can go down the powerline via your computer microphone. But really hacking – what does that mean – getting access to your computer and your data. I think you don’t need to have these dlan gadgets in your own home but even perhaps else where, nearby, where powerlines are shared and there is a continuity in line such that a dlan gadget can be deem to be in your own home if it is close enough but in reality physically outside your home because of continuity of the powerline. Sub vocal subliminals through your computer speakers or your TV can alter perception and your thinking. Your brain has no firewalls to protect your thinking. Sigmund Freud has to rewrite all his books with tomorrow’s world today.
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This gentleman can show you how this can happen as your powerline travels down your street.
Very intresting 🙂 I am curently writing a article for my blog about this “fun” stuff.
I have done some more experiments about hacking and sniffing homeplug/power line ethernet networks in Linux and FreeBSD, not all power line equipment can be exploited but for a few devices its easy to easy for example my power meater i could mess around with 😉