• eleijeep@piefed.social
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    24 hours ago

    This requires training on the specific network that you want to target, so unless the snoop has several weeks worth of training data where they know exactly what room you’re in at what time, then it’s not a realistic attack. Someone who has that much inside information doesn’t need this technology to know where in the building you are.

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      23 hours ago

      What’s stopping someone from just deploying their own wifi networks around, similar to flock cameras?

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        Presumably, the room itself. This isn’t about the router so much as the shape of the room and the way the waves move through the room in terms of data.

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        It has to be trained on the disturbances in the EM field that people create so no, an empty office wouldn’t train it.

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          But… if the router collects the data… it is just a matter of time. The room will stay constant. People will change. And there you have the fundamental information to infer ID

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    12 hours ago

    This has a lot of dystopian uses, but I also hope that it can be used by the open source community for home automation. That could be really great.

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      24 hours ago

      Doubt that will stop the US government.

      But as someone else said above, if they have this much access to the place where they can gather the training data necessary to fine tune this to figure out where you are and track you through the space, they don’t need this.

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        23 hours ago

        Would totally marry a cute girl talking about Faraday cages informally because marriage is a property arrangement between two people and their state which my beloved and I would not have

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      23 hours ago

      Chainmail for LARP’ing you can now designate as something somehow less nerdy?

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    24 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure it self-destructs if you enter “Lucius Fox” into the command console and hit enter.

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    24 hours ago

    I always thought it would be sweet to have a whole house camera to see inside your walls. Knowing where all your pipes are, knowing where voids are, maybe detecting leaks inside your walls, animal/rodent detection, etc. Antenna arrays in GHz bands should be able to have pretty good resolution on metallic reflectors. I guess add intruder detection too. If our privacy is being violated outside our homes, I’d at least like to leverage for some good inside my home.

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      This bounces off of walls, for the most part, so it will do the exact opposite of what you want. It will show you everything inside the house, not everything inside the walls.

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        I don’t think so. Drywall is fairly transparent to GHz, but I guess depends on if your home is made of sticks or something sturdier. People reflect better, which AFAIK is what this technology is highlighting.

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        Yeah I was thinking the higher the frequency the less penetration. GHz definite isn’t penetrating through walls too good.