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This is yet another reason to own (or better yet, build your own) router.
You have to go further.
If you don't fab your chips yourself, you are letting the authoritarian regimes in.
This is why you run your AP's with openwrt.
Well, I'm glad they have figured out how to block WiFi signals from leaving your house and detecting your neighbours if you live in an apartment or terrace........
This is another Pandora's box moment I think. I kinda was enjoying walls still being somewhat effective privacy guards
I think there is actually some anti-wifi paint. Though I am pretty sure it would only work well if you also paint the floor and ceiling.
Recent research paper that I assume this is based off of: https://arxiv.org/html/2507.12869v1
By leveraging non-visual biometric features embedded in Wi-Fi CSI, this study offers a privacy-preserving and robust approach for Wi-Fi-based Re-ID, and it lays the foundation for future work in wireless biometric sensing.
how the fuck would this make it privacy preserving?? who are these lieing to, themselves, policymakers, or the general public?
Straight evil.
And even dumber to boot!
I’ve been seeing research on this for a few years now, crazy it’s come this far. You can track the movement of people in a home pretty accurately using WiFi like a radar
i proof-read a dissertation on that very subject 10 years ago. it was using Bluetooth Low-Energy but the principle was the same. works through walls as well.
Yep. It's also possible to fingerprint people's body signatures and reconstruct poses.
mfs made that forbidden tech from The Dark Knight real 😭
Add this to recreating sound from video of vibrations from objects like plants and potato chip bags
https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804
Particle man, particle man. Clocking your ass like only wifi waves can.
is it illegal? it's not important. particle man.
Fucking prophetic. FYI it's impossible to feel depressed while listening to Birdhouse in your Soul.
Big TMBG fan here, a friend of a friend runs a pretty cool TMBG blog if you're interested https://www.kissmesonofblog.com/
Well I'll be damned. The internet is not dead. Now we just need like an indexing service that helps us search and find all these amazing sites.
It is not perfect by any means, but I have found that https://search.marginalia.nu/ is quite good at finding real people. there are also other useful things for this purpose on marginalia, such as the website explorer and a utility for finding websites similar to the one you put in..
At the least, add it to the Wayback Machine / Internet Archive and then throw them a dollar or a hundred, whatever you can. Not only do we need (new) indexing that isn't AI, but we need to make sure the best parts of the Internet don't disappear
i didn't know I was considered schizophrenic for being aware of how technology is a bus for surveillance
Non techie people are simply still below the "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." point, so that explains why imo. To them you are someone complaining about evil wizard conspiracies.
What are you on about? This is techies not getting that the tech they are researching is dystopian and dangerous.
Okay, well I needed an excuse to hire an electrician and rewire sound outlets, but if they can install Ethernet ports and I don’t have to deal with anything like this shit I’ll be happier.
It's not just your wifi, it's any wifi. Best start building a Faraday cage.
Also, you can prevent your wifi from being used this way against you, get an open-source router
iwlwifi fan vs ath9k enjoyer
jammer is better
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