Comcast Makes It More And More Difficult To Opt-Out Of Internet Sharing.

Here’s how to opt out: Buy your own cheap wi-fi router. Set it up as an access point and connect it to any of your Comcast router’s LAN ports with a patch cable.

Put a metal colander over the Comcast device and place the router itself on some aluminum foil. This is a Faraday cage,  so the signal will be attenuated to ~1m or less.

To avoid being double-NATted (which can cause problems with some services), place the IP address of your new wireless access point in the DMZ of the Comcast router.

I recommend this model as it’s cheap and very reliable.

It costs $50 to defeat that evil empire, but sometimes it’s Comcast or nothing so most people can’t just switch. And this will kill the empire’s wi-fi, but let you have your own still without strangers leeching it and doing who knows what.

Judge Richard Posner occasionally says some intelligent things. But mostly, he is still a staunch and addlepated conservative.

“Much of what passes for the name of privacy is really just trying to conceal the disreputable parts of your conduct,” Posner added. “Privacy is mainly about trying to improve your social and business opportunities by concealing the sorts of bad activities that would cause other people not to want to deal with you.”

I will be over to his place posthaste to install cameras in all his bathrooms, and in his master bedroom.

Night vision, too, because what does he have to hide after all?

His view of privacy has to be the dumbest one out of all possible views, and the least nuanced.