Note to California people, you might be interested in my last paragraph which deals with another spy on us, our PG&E smart meters.
“Perhaps you know the answer to my question: if a person has a land line but it’s connected to the same modem (I think that’s what it’s called, not sure) as the internet connection (Xfinity), is the land line (cordless phone and old push button princess phone) secure or not?”
Your question is an excellent one. We had PacBell/AT&T and went to Comcast/Infinity when the AT&T service was so bad my wife and I couldn’t call each other on the two lines in our house.
My wife kept her Princess because it works during power failures.
This past week, we found out that for some of the phones and 2 lines in an into our house, Comcast had run some of the lines through an old AT&T box.
We are have a total outside repaint and the painter and contractor said we should remove the old AT&T box.
So they disconnected, and we lost the use of my wife’s princess and one of the two lines in the two line phone in our kitchen.
Someone had installed a metal plate inside the AT&T box with special screw heads to keep non AT&T people out of that box. That was done by ?? after we went to Comcast. Our painter had worked for Dish as a installer in the Midwest, and he said he had heard of plates like this and they were installed to prevent non providers from getting into the boxes.
The other interesting finding deals with the so called smart meters that PG&E installed. They installed a line from the smart meter to a coupler box they installed on our Comcast cable coming into the house. Now, we know how our smart meters communicate with PG&E. They use our Comcast line. I’m sure that any other phone provider for any Cali family, provides this service to PG&E at a cost, which we pay via our PG&E bill.
Imagine what the collection of data will be from the smart meters....they will know your family routine, lights on and off, when you are home or not.....just imagine!