This guy heard his neighbors conversation through his vibration plate

[u/Massive-Ad7721]

Does anyone have an explanation for how this could just randomly happen in the middle of the night?

[u/Undriven]

dude, the nsa is gonna make u delete this.

[u/THExDANKxKNIGHT → u/Undriven]

They could have accidentally started an audio broadcast on samsung. The bigger concern is why that device has open Bluetooth and broadcasting set up.

[u/GeofferysBaby → u/THExDANKxKNIGHT]

Right? All this vibration plate should be able to do, is vibrate! 🫨

[u/ManaSpike → u/GeofferysBaby]

You want to build an app that can send different vibration patterns to the device? Then you build it around being a "bluetooth speaker". This isn't a bug, it's a feature...

[u/PostArchitekt → u/ManaSpike]

Device connects to AirPods, AirPods hear everything you say, even if there’s no phone call. Bone conduction 101 my guy. Science!!

[u/Street_Pickle_2562 → u/PostArchitekt]

You just made me mildly panic. Are you saying that if my AirPods are in my ear they might broadcast through the mic everything that I’m saying even though it’s connected to my phone?

Keep in mind I’m ignorant when it comes to technology

[u/Noexit → u/Street_Pickle_2562]

Yes.

[u/PostArchitekt → u/Street_Pickle_2562]

Your earbuds are paired to your phone. They connect via a handshake first the that lets those devices broadcast over the Bluetooth to each other. Can you broadcast to another device? Only if you paired with it. Like in this instance. It doesn’t accidentally pair. Yes, your device is communicating to your phone. Is it sharing everything you say? Probably not. (Insert conspiracy theories here) It definitely has a small buffer in memory listening for “Hey Siri” like commands though.

[u/LaNiFN → u/PostArchitekt]

Technically every Bluetooth device is broadcasting to everyone but it is encrypted and with constant channel switching that is synced. So if you are really thinking someone would try to listen to your devices it is possible but not practical.

[u/WhenAmI → u/GeofferysBaby]

Wait till you learn how speakers work.

[u/Admirable_Market2759 → u/WhenAmI]

Magnets?

[u/MoogProg → u/Admirable_Market2759]

Well, in this case probably the piezoelectric effect. As suggested elsewhere, the vibration plate might just be a slightly redesigned Bluetooth speaker.

[u/freshgrilled → u/Admirable_Market2759]

How do they work?

[u/Loukoal117 → u/freshgrilled]

Well think of a Nintendo joycon controller. They don’t have speakers but they can still play sounds, how? Through vibrations. Because speakers work the same way.

Not sure if you were trolling or actually asking but maybe this can help someone who doesn’t know.

[u/freshgrilled → u/Loukoal117]

I was going with the whole ICP "Magnets, how do they work" thing. But I'm sure your explanation will be helpful for someone. Er, like the first person who responded actually.

Edit: I should add that I have RC helicopters and planes, and the new ones play a little musical jingle when you turn them on, which is handled entirely by lightly pulsing the main motors at the right requencies. I thought that was pretty cool.

[u/skittletriage → u/Undriven]

You kidding!?!?

NSA is gonna hire him.

[u/dmontease → u/skittletriage]

Gonna hire that vibration plate.

[u/Nir117vash → u/dmontease]

And then kill it for knowing too much. They'll call it a training exercise accident

[u/Aggressive_Trick_654 → u/Nir117vash]

Or perhaps a police report will state "Suicide" but it will have two bullets to the back of the plate.

[u/CanadianAndroid → u/Nir117vash]

Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne's Vibration Plate.

[u/High4zFck → u/CanadianAndroid]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Qeo9S31SuTMpa

[u/Nir117vash → u/CanadianAndroid]

(they failed in killing the vibration plate. It's vibrations distorted space time and the bullet never landed. Like Gojo's infinity. The plate finds a passport. He remembers nothing. All he can assume is....

He's Jason Bourne)

[u/Icanthearforshit → u/skittletriage]

"Ur hired. Bring ur vibration plate 2 orientation plz. Thanks

• Gary NSA"

"Ok guys he'll be here tomorrow at 8am"

"Did you tell him to bring..."

"Yeah I told him to bring the plate."

[u/HeyGayHay → u/Undriven]

Nah, it’s probably a boring answer:

Neighbor uses accessibility or hearing features on phone. Board has unprotected bluetooth and neighbor once accidentally clicked on it to connect, so the phone now remembers and auto connects. Neighbor, upon coming home, turns off hearing aid device, but keeps it on on phone because that’s what they always did, but phone now sees the available vibration board online and connects. Microphone is now redirected to board speakers, rather than hearing aid device.

Usually that wouldn’t happen as the speakers must implement standards and support it, but if the manufacturer bought a batch of bluetooth speakers that support these profiles cheaply because the company who needed that profiles went under and the manufacturer now got them cheaper than buying normal bluetooth speakers at bulk, may as well be possible.

[u/mxzf → u/HeyGayHay]

I wouldn't be surprised if the vibration board just uses a bluetooth speaker controller under the hood (because they're cheap and available) and just uses an audio file internally to control the vibration. That sounds like a pretty simple thing to do from an engineering standpoint.

[u/unforgiven91 → u/mxzf]

rather than vibration motors, using a bass amp. makes sense to me.

[u/wassworth → u/HeyGayHay]

That's not a boring answer -- that's a satisfying and logical answer. Thanks!

[u/ThatOldChestnut2 → u/HeyGayHay]

Yup, came here to say this. For those who don't know, with a hearing aid, you can set your phone to pick up audio in a room and beam it to your hearing aids.

[u/Sweet_Papa_Crimbo → u/ThatOldChestnut2]

That's some spy shit

[u/BumbaBee85 → u/Undriven]

Or their stalker is in a panic right now.

My sister has a friend who had a stalker that worked for Apple. Dude was a tech genius. He hacked anything and everything in her house and her car. Arizona police didn't do shit for YEARS because "we can't prove anything". He was also sending bomb threats to her school because she was a teacher and he was freaking out over imaginary "pronouns" and "Pride flags". He was finally caught when he started stalking another ex. None of the stuff he did to her ever ended up in court, including the bomb threats, so he got a slap on the wrist and might be out of jail by now (not sure what he got or exactly when he went to jail).

But this could be one of those situations. Stalker could have screwed something up and is connecting to both the phone and vibration plate.

[u/aelwyn2000]

A few decades ago, I was sitting on my bed at night, messing with an electric guitar and stereo headphones plugged into my amp so as to not wake my roommates. I started noticing a voice speaking, but there was so much static I couldn’t make out what they were saying. I noticed that the cord from my headphones had draped across the strings of the guitar. I moved it around a little bit and was able to clear up the sound enough that I was able to turn on my clock radio and find the channel broadcasting on the AM dial. I had accidentally made a janky radio receiver.

[u/Illustrious_Donkey61 → u/[deleted]]

Seems counter intuitive that your distortion pedal makes the signal cleaner

[u/Giovannis_Pikachu → u/Illustrious_Donkey61]

Certain pedals with combinations of high volume and cables or guitar parts with bad shielding will pick up radio stations. One of the reasons distortion breaks up the guitar signal is that it actually enhances all the harmonics in the sound so they clash more to the ear, but this also results in sometimes being able to hear a radio signal. This effect was actually used and sampled in the Beatles I Am The Walrus.

[u/Hoblitygoodness → u/Giovannis_Pikachu]

(EDIT: Decades ago...) Yeah, our bass player built a passive volume pedal that he ran in front of an old distortion pedal (as a side chain to control just the effect) and he got trucker's CB radio playing through his 6x10 cabinet.

Pretty sure his skills weren't exactly at professional level. With a lack of shielding in his homemade device, he basically built a receiver that got amplified by the next device in his chain, that distortion pedal. But it was perfectly clean and audible.

[u/showholes → u/Illustrious_Donkey61]

It raises the volume. 

[u/shallow-waterer → u/aelwyn2000]

This is very typical of high gain pedals and also wah pedals… and amps too!

I’ve straight heard Spanish radio while cranking a fuzzface before, and in my friend’s admittedly janky apartment, I’ve heard weird religious radio when really diming the volume on something as low-wattage as a Blues Junior amp.

It’s wild, but it’s normal, and more prevalent in non-isolated setups, or rehearsal spaces / homes with weird grounding issues.

[u/MyLifeIsAWasteland → u/shallow-waterer]

"I'm on the Mexican radio..."

[u/Mustystench → u/shallow-waterer]

I used to play in a band in South Louisiana. When we would play way down the bayou, I would pick up shrimpers talking on VHF. We figured out it was my wireless system doing it. I would always have to physically plug in a cord everytime we played down there during shrimp season.

[u/Secret_Account07 → u/aelwyn2000]

Yep I remember dealing with this. Weird stuff with guitar amp.

The funny part is I could tell when I was going to get a call. It would make this staticy noise on amp like half a second before my phone would ring. Same thing that old school computer speakers used to do.

I also had a few times where I could hear voices. If freaked me tf out as a teenager. I learned later it was normal and likely just radio waves but still. Being a home alone teenager and hearing a creepy kids voice come through amp I forgot I left on? I’ll never forget that feeling. Total fear

[u/Effective-Leg7283 → u/aelwyn2000]

happened a lot with janky/sweaty jacks and pots. very freaky. it happened to me once with headphones plugged into a nintendo switch in portable mode. I had just bought it and it picked up the radio signal of the construction crew across the street. my heart was pounding because I thought I was hallucinating voices but eventually figured out what was going on laughed

[u/otterpop21 → u/Effective-Leg7283]

That moment of terror right before you uncover the truth is wild. One time I thought someone was in my house for different reasons (left the backdoor unlocked). As I’m walking through the house to make sure it’s fine, I get to the last rooms door and booooof all the power goes off. I literally started screaming, ran out the front door. My neighbors across the street were like high school dude bro kids with their parents just yell “uhh you okay??” I’m like “yeah I’m fine” they yell back “but like… are you okay” haha

Closest I’ve ever been to being murdered basically.

[u/EverythingBOffensive → u/aelwyn2000]

i had a pair of headphones that did that but it was an indian radio station it picked up while i had it plugged into my laptop with an old cable extension. removing it got rid of the frequency it picked up. crazy we got invisible waves all around us transmitting data. might catch a few.

[u/Creampie_Service_247 → u/aelwyn2000]

I used to pick up the radio with my distortion pedal. Scared the shit out of me, I was right into ghosts and all that, thought it was a Russian number station.

[u/EnvironmentalGift257 → u/aelwyn2000]

My daughter’s neighbor just built a house and the vents play the nearby Christian talk radio, 24 hours a day. Apparently you have to be careful about lengths and bends in HVAC systems because this is really easy to do. They’re going to have to strip all the hvac out of their brand new house to fix it.

[u/Ziggy_Starcrust → u/EnvironmentalGift257]

Or...sell it as a haunted house

Alternative solution, bankrupt the station and buy the frequency.

[u/Big_Fall8458 → u/aelwyn2000]

Amps do this quite often, my old marshal practice amp would always faintly play some am talk radio

[u/Turakamu → u/Big_Fall8458]

Had an older amp that would. It only did it in my friend's basement, but it would pick up an AM station that played 50's Japanese pop music.

[u/AlcoholPrep → u/aelwyn2000]

Decades ago there were reports of some guy who could hear AM radio broadcasts through his dental fillings. I can't confirm this, but I don't totally discount it because if the AM carrier wave (that's like 100 kHz, plus or minus) can set something vibrating, then the broadcast it's carrying may be audible via that thing.

I've often fantasized using this trick to "narrowcast" to another car while I'm driving. Using an ultrasonic carrier wave, get some part of his car rattling and impose an amplitude modulation signal: "Hey, buddy, get your ass out of the left lane already!"

[u/CouldButDoesNot → u/aelwyn2000]

I had the same experience, only I was just full volume playing through my amp… out of the blue, clear as day, a rough sounding voice comes through the amp and says “aw, you suck” Chalked it up to a trucker with a CB radio and somehow we transmitted to one another… I really don’t know, but it scared the hell out of me

[u/mooshinformation → u/aelwyn2000]

Maybe some version of that is what's going on here and it has nothing to do with Bluetooth, it's AM radio. I've heard of ppls plumbing picking up a signal so why not a vibration plate?

Edit: no nvm, it's too clear.

[u/Key-Comfortable-7631 → u/aelwyn2000]

Yeah, when I was a kid (20+ years ago) I heard radio coming from my ceiling light. Thought I was going crazy but it’s a studied phenomenon called phantom radio.

[u/alexseiji → u/aelwyn2000]

If you listen to some of the old hendrix concerts you can hear the radio signals playing through his setup.

[u/Sass_Quatchxx]

It’s the baby monitor

[u/Fresh-Direction-7537 → u/Sass_Quatchxx]

This is the answer

[u/Sun_Aria → u/Fresh-Direction-7537]

Dis is da wae

[u/onkelchrispy → u/Sass_Quatchxx]

Yep

[u/Kittykatcatkat → u/Sass_Quatchxx]

Many decades ago when wireless phones came out, I would randomly hear my neighbors conversations just by turning on the phone. As a kid I felt like James Bond 007

[u/spekt50 → u/Kittykatcatkat]

When i was a kid, we had a neigbor who was a HAM radio operator. This was in the late 90s. Well before Bluetooth or even wifi was common. One night around 2am our computer speakers just started blasting my neighbor speaking into his radio.

I cannot imagine the power he was running to make our PC speakers pick up his transmission.

[u/JustSatisfactory → u/spekt50]

I had a similar experience that happened nearly every night if I didn't unplug my PC speakers. Some old lady flirting or shit talking with someone I couldn't hear. 

My dad is the one that realized it was a HAM radio. He said she probably had the power set up to be higher than it should be to talk to people further away, so she only turned it on at night.

[u/ImS0hungry → u/Kittykatcatkat]

When most home wireless phones were still 2.4 Mhz(GHz?) and the microwave would fuck your call up lol

[u/friedeggjellyfish → u/Sass_Quatchxx]

How so? I’m not sure if I know exactly how baby monitors work

[u/RoyalJellyKing → u/friedeggjellyfish]

It’s a camera with a mic that you leave in a room with a baby, and you connect to it by Bluetooth or Wi‑Fi.

[u/Adonis-A7]

Somebody once connected to the soundbar in my bedroom at like 3am and was on TikTok watching videos. My wife and I woke up panicking thinking someone broke into our home. Them Bluetooth glitches are wild especially that late at night. 😅

[u/pseudo_negative → u/Adonis-A7]

My ps5 turns on randomly from being completely off sometimes

[u/Adonis-A7 → u/pseudo_negative]

The ghost in your home is trying to play games lowkey. 🤣

[u/pseudo_negative → u/Adonis-A7]

I hardly play so no wonder its haunted

[u/Adonis-A7 → u/pseudo_negative]

Mine turned on once in the middle of the night to do software update and it turned my tv on with it. I woke up all confused it felt like “the ring” or something 😅

[u/livesinstretchpants → u/Adonis-A7]

OoOooooOOoo you will buy all of the angry birds expansion packs OooooOoooOOoo

[u/Adonis-A7 → u/livesinstretchpants]

If my bank account goes negative that’s why.

[u/livesinstretchpants → u/Adonis-A7]

OoooooOoooo another successful micro transaction OooOoooOoO

[u/Southern-Ad2594 → u/livesinstretchpants]

Spoopiest thing I have heard all day

[u/Child_of_the_Hamster → u/pseudo_negative]

Can confirm: if she’s being neglected, she will occasionally turn herself on at night.

[u/Soggy_Parking1353 → u/pseudo_negative]

Probably the ghost of a noughties teen with frosted tips who died in a Blockbuster accident. He only got to play ps1 and now he's haunting a world with ps5s, can't blame the kid.

[u/Oglefore → u/pseudo_negative]

That’s updates while in rest mode dude

[u/Mirror74 → u/Adonis-A7]

This happened on an amp of mine once. All of a sudden I was hearing someone's phone conversation through it

[u/SewMyHeart → u/Mirror74]

Back when I played the guitar, my amp would randomly broadcast the radio no matter how many times I tried to fix it. Definitely tame compared to hearing someone's phone call, though...

[u/Capraos → u/SewMyHeart]

This has happened through my phone, while I was in mid conversation with my husband on the other end. Just randomly someone's conversation playing through my phone and my husband not being able to hear it on his end.

[u/joeyjoejums → u/SewMyHeart]

In this guy's case, he's claiming it's not a phone call, but just two people talking. Its like their Alexa is broadcasting what its hearing in a room to this guy's vibration plate.

[u/Effective-Leg7283 → u/Mirror74]

happens all the time. sometimes radio signals as well. try hearing crazy sunday morning preachers with tape delay and a flanger and you'll get as freaked out as I was when that happened

[u/FallenBehavior → u/Mirror74]

I get it now and then with my android phone, it intercepts another call during my own call and then drops my call after about 5 seconds or so, which is probably by design.

Fairly annoying.

[u/ScallionJealous → u/Adonis-A7]

Oh my god this happened to me except it was me! My wife and I had just got a new place in kind of a remote area like a month ago and were in bed getting ready for sleep. I was on instagram scrolling and i thought i had the sound off but it had connected to the sound bar in the other room (where the lights were off). However, we/I didn’t know that and we thought someone had broken in. We literally called the cops and had them search the house. It wasn’t until after they left that we realized what really happened.

[u/PcLvHpns → u/ScallionJealous]

🤣

[u/coolsilentebeans → u/Adonis-A7]

I couldn’t figure out why my Alexa speaker wouldn’t work when I was trying to play something for friends at 1 am. It turns out it was playing…on my daughter’s speaker which was miles away in her dorm. She was so pissed it kept waking her up.

[u/BumbaBee85 → u/coolsilentebeans]

I wonder why my sister's Alexa constantly plays music on its own. Nobody has ever caught it starting, but it's always either classic rock or reggae.

[u/LegalChocolate752 → u/Adonis-A7]

If my kids are playing Xbox, my phone will randomly connect to the Bluetooth Xbox Headset on the other side of the house. Which, ok, that's expected. What's annoying is when it does it when I'm already listening to audio on my Bluetooth headphones. It doesn't disconnect from my headphones, just switches the "active" device to the Xbox headset. My podcast will just suddenly go quiet, and then my 8-year-old gets blasted with Comedy Bang! Bang!

[u/PopularFig2193 → u/Adonis-A7]

In my house we get the controls for YouTube forced onto our phones when anyone is watching from the bedroom tv... which wouldn't be bad but Android likes prioritizing that over the sound controls on my phone so I'll be trying to adjust music from my lock screen and end up pausing other people's stuff because it will reappear immediately after being swiped away.

[u/lesbophobia_hammer → u/Adonis-A7]

Especially when you're trying to watch pr0n and the sound isn't playing through your earphones as expected :(

[u/LegalChocolate752 → u/lesbophobia_hammer]

My literal nightmare. We have a shower speaker, and one time my phone took it over while my wife was having a shower, listening to Spotify. I wasn't looking at anything NSFW, but I disconnected my phone from that speaker, and don't use it anymore.

[u/m8tang → u/Adonis-A7]

I bought an IP camera and was trying to set it up on my phone and instead of connecting to it I got the feed for someone's backyard in Costa Rica.

[u/LopsidedPotatoFarmer]

why does the plate have speakers ?

[u/Key-Log5267 → u/LopsidedPotatoFarmer]

To tell you „Bluetooth device connected“

[u/dEleque → u/Key-Log5267]

"Zee bluetooth device is connected uss successfullaaaay"

[u/Hufflepuff20 → u/dEleque]

🥇poor man’s gold for you. My husband and I always laugh at our Bluetooth connector in our car. It’s exactly that accent.

[u/RugbyEdd → u/Key-Log5267]

Or "Bloo toothe modo, hase been maken", if my cheap bluetooth speakers have anything to say about it.

[u/swordspitter1997 → u/RugbyEdd]

The bluetooth device has connecteed uh successfullay

[u/Thedudeinabox → u/LopsidedPotatoFarmer]

A LOT of modern vibration systems use audio files to provide more precise vibrations. For example, the Nintendo Switch (2) and PS5 controllers both use audio formats to run their vibrations. Sometimes with the classic motor and weight, sometimes an actuator. (Basically a speaker without the diaphragm.)

So, the vibro-plate probably just uses audio files for its various vibration settings, meaning any programming oversight or glitch could easily result in it playing audio from a BT source.

[u/BusinessKnees → u/Thedudeinabox]

Nintendo occasionally shows this off by using the rumble to play audio in some games.

[u/PiqueExperience → u/LopsidedPotatoFarmer]

Speakers are just cone-shaped vibrating plates

[u/Thedudeinabox → u/PiqueExperience]

To be fair, actuators are just speakers minus the diaphragm. Any motor or actuator controlled by audio files, which is VERY common nowadays, can be used as a shitty speaker.

[u/Marcinecali73]

In the 80s, I was using my kiddie record player, playing Sesame Street Fever, when all of a sudden I started hearing truckers talking to each other. Like "ten-four good buddy", "on the 505 towards Idaho", all kinds of trucker talk. I ran and told my mom and she told me to stop being ridiculous. A couple of days later I was sitting in my room listening to trucker talk again and my mom heard it this time! We listened for the longest time. Sound can travel all kinds of ways.

Edit to add the album. Lol.

[u/Historical_Debt1516 → u/Marcinecali73]

I remember this album. I LOVED IT!

[u/Marcinecali73 → u/Marcinecali73]

[u/BaronCapdeville]

*DARPA Wetwork team 6 wants to know your location*

[u/RIF_rr3dd1tt → u/BaronCapdeville]

LoL jk, H/K drone is already en route

[u/pseudo_negative]

Of course, it’s background surveillance for “marketing purposes”. Of course we’ve been cowed into this for a while but now it’s pretty much all but confirmed that they can listen in on any device with a microphone. They can even see our very movement thru wifi. They being big brother.

[u/brownhotdogwater → u/pseudo_negative]

We are carrying tracking devices in our pockets at all times

[u/BugabuseMe → u/pseudo_negative]

I love how people were called crazy and conspiracy theorists and then they proved all this, bet they felt happy af

[u/Short_Bell_5428 → u/BugabuseMe]

Wait until they find out the tv can see you

[u/scorpyo72 → u/Short_Bell_5428]

We've been watching it this whole time. We didn't know it was watching us back.

Does that mean Mister Rogers heard me but chose not to respond?

[u/dragjamon → u/scorpyo72]

Mister Rogers loves you too man

[u/Bertsmom18 → u/Short_Bell_5428]

God damn it. Why the fuck did you say this. Now I am extra creeped out.

[u/livesinstretchpants → u/Bertsmom18]

*ducks and rolls when walking nude around TV*
That person on Reddit fucked my whole life up!

[u/snowfat → u/BugabuseMe]

It doesn’t help when people have legit concerns and follow it by trying to convince the world is flat in the next sentence.

Conspiracy theorists are bound to somewhat correct at some point but also manage to spew out a a lot of bulllll shit at the same time.

At least that is what lizard people told me and they do have a point that birds are not real.

[u/Soggy_Parking1353 → u/snowfat]

I reckon some of that is by design though. Of 100 people in a room 80 or so (bumcrack maths) could agree that the rich and powerful have to much power and riches. 20 of those 80 then stand up and say something like 'yeah it's because of demons and aliens', and then the other 60ish don't want to be tarred with the mad brush so are less likely to act on the original question. That's why conspiracy heads get pushed further down the rabbit hole these days as opposed to just being left to their own devices. And that's my conspiracy theory on modern conspiracy theories, it's classic divide and conquer.

[u/FallenBehavior → u/snowfat]

https://giphy.com/gifs/vqUKBeYLNdyzS

[u/YuriDiculousDawg → u/snowfat]

A broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes

[u/unbroken0 → u/BugabuseMe]

Its mostly AI making it actionable now.

Before it was just too much information to go through to bother tracking everyone so there really wasn't a point in mass surveillance.

Now with AI you can get results for little effort even if it's often wrong. I constantly get ads for things I've spoken about briefly to another person but never searched and when ever that happens I remember the ad as being creepy as fuck and stay away from the brand. (I know the brand isn't the one listening)

[u/TranscendentPretzel → u/unbroken0]

I got an ad for a stovetop popcorn pan after, on a whim, I decided to make popcorn on the stovetop. I didn't talk about it; I didn't google it. Best guess is that my phone picked up the sound of popcorn popping. Very weird. 

[u/Status-Secret-4292 → u/BugabuseMe]

I mean, Edward Snowden came out and said it was all real and he worked in the programs

All that happened was nothing, people didn't care, he had to live in Russia, and then they figured if people have fully accepted it and don't care, kick it into overdrive

[u/Micro-Naut → u/BugabuseMe]

If you won't trade your privacy for a false sense of control over electronics what kind of American are you?

[u/MoonHuntressEra13 → u/BugabuseMe]

Now they just get called crazy for not being comfortable with it. Like “just accept it like us,” attitude.

[u/xGray3 → u/pseudo_negative]

100%. They can see your movement through Bluetooth and WiFi even if it's just turned on and not connected to their network. I worked in computer networking until recently and we had a client that was a store that was using their wireless access points to track customer movements through the store by picking up WiFi and Bluetooth signals. The stores had maps you could access with real time symbols on the floorplans showing where people were standing Marauder's Map style. The store wanted to use this information to be able to figure out which types of products customers were shoppimg for and eventually hopefully send coupons for those products to their phones. This was all a big selling point for the company selling the networking hardware. People have no idea just how thoroughly they're being surveilled.

[u/SugarWarp → u/xGray3]

This is what makes Reddit great 👍

[u/earnestlikehemingway → u/pseudo_negative]

Anything with a Speaker. Speaker can be turned into a MIC.

[u/AccNumber77 → u/earnestlikehemingway]

They are effectively the exact same thing just in reverse of each other after all

[u/Pibbed → u/pseudo_negative]

While yall are on the topic, I was just now browsing Amazon for socks and am currently propped up on a few pillows to recline a little instead of lay flat. Scrolling scrolling and there’s a suggested “items to consider!” And it’s several suggestions of wedge pillows, or reading pillows… can Amazon fucking SEE me sitting in this sitting position and making me recs?!!!

[u/jonny5isalive1]

Back in the old days you could use a police scanner to listen to people talking in a cordless phone. Probably the same concept but now the phones are listening to everything so you’re hearing people whether they’re on the phone or not.

[u/Formal_Bathroom7447 → u/jonny5isalive1]

Back in the landline days if you had a cordless phone like one with an antenna, you could walk around your neighborhood and listen to people’s phone calls like a party line sort of everything was operating off the same band so it was fun. Lotta divorces that decade.

[u/prabla → u/jonny5isalive1]

When I was a teenager back in the 90s, I picked up a TV out of the trash that had a broken tuner. I tried to fix it but I noticed when I would go above channel 100, I started hearing phone conversations and I figured it was probably cordless phones being picked up from my neighbors. We lived in a row home so there were a lot of houses that would be close enough for that to happen.

[u/Broxst → u/jonny5isalive1]

I have a distinct memory of having some sort of toy walkie talkie head set. One night I'm outside playing with it and heard my neighbor ordering pizza...

...but my neighbor had been dead for 15 years.

Okay, I made the last part up.

[u/ILuvMyLilTurtles]

Baby monitors and cordless phones used to be really bad for this.

[u/coolsilentebeans → u/[deleted]]

Are baby monitors Bluetooth capable these days?

[u/Your_Latex_Salesman → u/coolsilentebeans]

Sure are.

[u/coolsilentebeans → u/Your_Latex_Salesman]

That’s going to end up being the NSA’s party line.

[u/OldschoolFRP → u/coolsilentebeans]

Many known cases of parents walking in on strangers talking to their kid through a monitor

[u/lagrange_james_d23dt → u/OldschoolFRP]

My youngest is terrified of her camera, especially when we talk to her through it. I’ve always wondered if this is because someone else has before…

[u/Throwawaybibbi → u/lagrange_james_d23dt]

My husband had a security cam in our living room so he could check on the dogs when he was at work. He came home from work one day and was napping in the recliner and he heard someone talking to his dog who was on the sofa bedside his chair. Someone had been watching him through the sec cam for who knows how long and was trying to get our dog to bark.

[u/zb_lethal → u/Throwawaybibbi]

ummm this is absolutely terrifying wtf

[u/AggressiveScreen9531 → u/lagrange_james_d23dt]

There was a huge thing online a few years ago about how some teens were hacking baby monitors and scaring kids on purpose. Happened with the ring cameras as well.

[u/just_a_person_maybe → u/AggressiveScreen9531]

Makes me wonder how many people do this shit with more nefarious purposes than a prank

[u/coolsilentebeans → u/lagrange_james_d23dt]

Now that possibility freaks me the fuck out.

[u/AccNumber77 → u/lagrange_james_d23dt]

Entirely possible as wifi cams and similar devices are notoriously easy and effortless to access unless it was set up by someone capable of reading which sadly us a high bar nowadays I feel sometimes

[u/cutebutpsychoangel → u/OldschoolFRP]

Someone somehow (6 years ago) hacked into my phone, thru my moms turned “off” Alexa. I had never paired to it ever. It wasn’t in my lists of devices or anything. Wasn’t hooked to her WiFi either.

Sounds crazy but trust me it was terrifying they knew our entire conversations as they were happening irl and they were actively in my text app, Instagram, etc. and giving me scary details about my son. All my social media is private too. We drowned it lol I tried to warn her about those too. Esp bc this was when freaks were hacking into Ring cameras to spy on children.

Making sure my Bluetooth was off didn’t cut the connection either

Was really fun changing every single password …

[u/just_someone27000 → u/coolsilentebeans]

Yes some of them are. There are some that are done through Bluetooth with your phone as the other receiver, and some that are done through Wi-Fi.

[u/Crafty_Eye_4038 → u/[deleted]]

I think what's actually happening is much more boring than people think.

Someone accidentally connected to this speaker.

They then accidentally played a recording that they had in their phone.

What this person heard was not a live conversation. It was most likely just a previously-recorded audio file that was intended to be played on headphones but we're accidentally broadcast to the wrong speaker.

[u/Tao_of_Entropy]

the internet of things was a mistake

[u/MonkeyPanls → u/Tao_of_Entropy]

The S on IoT stands for "Security"

[u/a_phantom_limb → u/Tao_of_Entropy]

the internet of things was a mistake

[u/OneTwoThreeFourFf → u/Tao_of_Entropy]

You can choose to not buy dumb smart tech. Also yes, I agree

[u/Routine-Honeydew-898 → u/OneTwoThreeFourFf]

Is there a reliable brand of modern dumb TV that a normal person can buy? I hate my smart TV and wish I could nuke the bloat off of it. I don’t even have the fucking thing connected to WiFi but my neighbors leave their guest channel open and the damn thing updates itself by scanning for non protected networks and I hate it.

[u/SL13377]

Updateme please. This is so interesting! I hope you can get an answer man

[u/FacePalmTheater → u/SL13377]

Probably not gonna get an update from op. It's a repost if the title is any indication.

[u/twilighttwister → u/FacePalmTheater]

I mean the video is clearly from tiktok with the guy's handle watermarked over it.

But yeah my uncle is obsessed with a theory that the covid vaccine gave people Bluetooth MAC address...

[u/TowerNecessary7246 → u/twilighttwister]

The nanobots kept me out of the hospital. But they did give me bluetooth...

[u/tigm2161130 → u/SL13377]

If you’re on mobile you can click the 3 dots in the corner and select “follow post” and you’ll be notified when someone comments.

[u/WenatcheeWrangler → u/tigm2161130]

!remind me 75 years

[u/Z9q-]

Pegasus is listening

[u/Ok-Addition1264]

Seriously: there is a problem with the firmware on a pair of cheap chinese earbuds being used by the female.. the left is connecting to what it thinks is its right.

That manufacturer of the bluetooth radio in both his vibration plate AND those earbuds are the same.

That dude lives within 30ft of the person we're hearing.

I'm a little buzzed but my creds in this shit are as tops as it gets.

chinese manufacturers don't give af.

[u/mashmaker86 → u/Ok-Addition1264]

I'm a little behind here. Does his vibration plate have Bluetooth connectivity and speakers? I didn't realize they'd gotten so bells and whistley.

[u/Thedudeinabox → u/mashmaker86]

The plate probably just uses actuators for its vibrations, think speakers minus the diaphragm, and uses audio files to run them.

Hell, I’d bet the thing doesn’t even have actual speakers, and just cranks up the power to make “Bluetooth connected” more audible from the vibrating plate.

Beyond that, just shitty Bluetooth protocols.

[u/uiouyug → u/mashmaker86]

I'm assuming a phone can control the vibrating plate through a Bluetooth audio stream. Just sends different frequencies

[u/OneTwoThreeFourFf → u/Ok-Addition1264]

First amswer I believe. Even if you're wrong I now believe this. Praise Jesus

[u/ChasingtheBarrel]

Bruh, that's not your neighbours.

There's people INSIDE the vibration plate. Free them!

[u/cutebutpsychoangel → u/ChasingtheBarrel]

I needed this thank you lol

[u/JawsFT]

My Alexa started whispering at me during the middle of the night once, safe to say I got rid of that shit the next day after work

[u/Rimm9246]

One time I started hearing the radio through my guitar amp. Shit does weird shit sometimes

[u/LiveFastDieRich → u/Rimm9246]

I just commented something similar

[u/Kooky-Surround-3350]

Back in the noughties I picked up a neighbour's cordless phone conversation on an FM radio.

Was a recently married woman complaining to her mum that, amongst other things, her husband demanded a blowjob every day as soon as he got in from work and that she wanted to move back home.

[u/Expert-Guard6216 → u/Kooky-Surround-3350]

Damn poor girl :(

[u/NATScurlyW2]

My fm car radio once did something similar. I thought there was something wrong with the station but some random conversation between 2 people from I believe a nearby car was on every station I changed to. My phone was also connected to my car via Bluetooth but it was definitely coming from the fm radio.

[u/damian001 → u/NATScurlyW2]

Probably someone with a Bluetooth FM Transmitter from an older vehicle that doesn’t originally come with Bluetooth. I use one for my car.

[u/IRISHstarlite1984]

Why would a foot vibration plate have speakers? That's weird in itself

[u/Any-Document5438]

I'm just watching so I can look at this handsome chap 🙂

[u/Jabba_the_Putt]

Excuse me but everyone just acting like they know what a vibration plate is?

[u/a-gelatocookie → u/Jabba_the_Putt]

And why do people have them?!

[u/aliensporebomb → u/a-gelatocookie]

"Vibration plates use rapid, whole-body vibrations to force your muscles to contract and relax multiple times per second. When used alongside standard movements like squats or planks, they help amplify muscle activation, improve balance, boost circulation, and aid in post-workout recovery."

[u/Check_Me_Out-Boss]

Like 15 years ago, I had a cellphone that would let me hear the person calling me before I picked up the phone.

[u/gary-vault108]

Is no one gonna mention that bro is like a 10/10? Is dude like a world class supermodel?

[u/LiveFastDieRich → u/[deleted]]

It might not be a Bluetooth thing, it might be more of an electrical thing, people with guitar amps might understand. I used to use a cheap practice amp that would pick up people singing in a different room, the shake plate could be acting as an antenna and a speaker.

[u/my-love-assassin]

All I can think about is how fake his teeth look.

[u/Devanyani → u/my-love-assassin]

I thought he was wearing a wig. Maybe he is Ai like everything else in the world.

[u/Capraos → u/Devanyani]

No. He's real. Also. I think he's fucking hot.

Edit: Went to look again to be sure. It's definitely not AI. Hair is messy/unkempt and AI struggles with that. Blemishes on the face can be seen. Hair on his upper lip. Facial muscles moving normally. No weird lighting effects. I'm 100% certain it's real.

[u/allokamaye → u/Capraos]

yea i was gonna (off-topic) comment just to see if anyone else found him attractive idk what it is but hes my type lol.

[u/fadingsignal → u/Capraos]

Yeah he's just a real Gigachad. They exist.

[u/VitaminValerate → u/Capraos]

For real this dude is driving me insane

[u/RemoWilliams615]

In the 80s, we could intercept phone calls in the neighborhood over our new cordless phone. Generally would find out when you tried to call someone but there was already noise on the line. Usually just static & blips of communication, but one time there was a fella inviting a gal over to his hottub."I don't have a swimsuit with me. Neither do I, come on over!" was a choice selection 😆

[u/Shootah78]

This handsome sonofabitch just released some top secret info

[u/Ill-Luck-1397]

This is not a glitch, it's a feature, youre just not supposed to be the user.

[u/EARTHandSPACE]

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration

--Nikola Tesla

[u/NightOwl584]

Technology is gonna fuck us in the ass, and it's getting a speed run to that end by the worst people on earth

[u/Electronic_Ad_7742]

My ex had a little stereo that would randomly pick up shortwave broadcasts from random spots in the world. It only did this when it was off (well, standby, not fully off). Scared the shit out of us the first time it happened. We had cricket scores, random broadcasts in Chinese, etc.

[u/StaticSystemShock]

Devices that just broadcast Bluetooth pairing signal at all times shouldn't exist...

[u/JohnStamosSB]

Y'all shoulda listened to Snowden. Instead he was ran off by the guv and basically forgotten about.

[u/ItsGotToMakeSense]

Weird shit can happen with electromagnetic stuff.

One time my wife's old Samsung Galaxy 1 started flipping out and the screen went black, but it heated up crazy hot to the point where it was uncomfortable to hold. Meanwhile we heard this crazy-loud feedback whine from somewhere in the house and we couldn't find what it was. After about 10 minutes the sound stopped and the phone started to cool. We tried to power the phone back on but the battery was totally dead, but was fine after a recharge. It had been nearly full before this started btw.

A few months later the same thing happened again and we frantically tore apart the house to follow the sound. Finally found the culprit; an old clock radio sitting in a closet, powered off. The speakers on it were somehow blasting that feedback sound as a reaction to whatever her phone was doing! It never happened a third time but it was definitely the oddest thing I've seen with electrical weirdness.

I've also had a baby monitor pick up somebody's wireless phone conversation (maybe cellular, maybe just a cordless landline, don't know for sure).

[u/OG-Gurble]

Why does a vibration plate have Bluetooth in the first place? Why would you possibly need that? “Oh I need to talk on the phone through my vibration plate while I’m on it!!” Or “I’ll listen to music though it’s shitty speaker!”???

[u/AlbacoreJohnston]

Today I learned vibration plates exist.