Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility (opens in new tab)

What do you mean, they clearly spell out how little they collect, in their privacy policy:

> The amount of personally identifiable information stored by SamKnows is limited to; name, email, and address. All metadata and personally identifiable information is both encrypted at rest and in transit on SamKnows servers. It is never stored or transmitted to or from the test agent

See? Nothing to worry about, just your name, email and address. Very little that could actually pinpoint who you are or where you are.

Ref: https://samknows.com/blog/testing-principles

Another thing, is that viral video recently, where AI was able to give an explanation of the dream, the person said the sonar in Wifi routers can be transformed into showing positions of humans in buildings. Not that recent, actually found an article from Jan this year - https://boingboing.net/2023/01/19/new-study-shows-how-to-use...

Something we should keep in mind.

To be fair: RUM is a pretty shady market. (I don't know anything about this particular company.)

Block TCP connections on port 80 and 443 to dcs-global.samknows.com

Presumably don't enable that feature or don't install the software?

I have been asking around but people in the know are keeping quiet. I'd love to know and will reply to this comment if I find anything out.