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‘Wifi Whisperer’ Siphons Your Data in the Creepiest Way Possible

Posted on June 5, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Liz Stinson reports:

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. As festivalgoers walked past the installation, the artwork grabbed insecure data and display it on monitors, while a hidden speaker whispered the stream of data—what networks you’ve recently connected to and websites you’ve visited, for example—like a creepy, demon-voiced Big Brother. “It’s sort of like looking over someone’s shoulder,” says McDonald, “except you’re doing it without actually looking over their shoulder.”

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1 thought on “‘Wifi Whisperer’ Siphons Your Data in the Creepiest Way Possible”

  1. Anonymous says:
    June 6, 2016 at 12:24 am

    It doesn’t take uber hacking skills to do this. NarkNet.com shows how this is done and how to protect against it.

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