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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

We’re so cooked man

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I predict that, within my lifetime, the US will precision drone-strike US citizens on American soil.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

several years ago they got that guy in dallas who was icing pigs with a bomb on a glorified RC car, does that count?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

what does RSS stand for here

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

here's a paper from 2013 i found about how this works

https://span.ece.utah.edu/uploads/jstsp-patwari_r2_f.pdf

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

thanks for the blanking. Seeing this go around elsewhere, wild how its still cool to openly shit on ND people

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

dunno why it's hard to use tinfoil hat wearers, it's a symbol for this exact shit :(

meow-hug

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because what will a person with that disorder do? complain about it? because everyone will side against them, everyone will see them as the irrational person no matter what they say.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Tbh, tinfoil hat wearer (if interpreted literally) also refers to people struggling with health condition, but it maps so much closer to this scenario, while people struggling with schizophrenia are just not.

Being nicer it would be like "cybersec bros holding gun to printer undefeated"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

can I ask what it said originally?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I'm guessing something inflammatory towards people with schizophrenia

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

Yeah man, tell me more about CHYNA being an Orwellian police state and shit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Signal jammer is going to be a necessary part of the infantry toolkit for anything that may involve defending a building.

With this technology you can broadcast a wifi signal as a sort of radar ping, then have the locations of all living things in the building mapped to within 2 meters of their location.

Map that to an AR headset and the infantry has real world wallhacks and you know how much of an advantage that will be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

idk how big your rooms are but being off by 2m would have me outside or in a hallway or in another room rn

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In Ghost Recon you have to throw a special grenade to see the enemies through the walls

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

2 meters error (assuming it means radius of 2 meters) is like my whole living room lol. This kind of sounds like “well the research went nowhere but the thesis to be submitted”

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

good enough for hellfire missile tho. Or pinpointing a room in a building

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It requires a lot of nodes! Like if you’re placing 6 wifi end points in every room that’s pretty bad opsec even without this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

I have a smart light that interacts with wifi, add one more and you could use them to triangulate at least a rough position possibly. Enough to tell if someone is in the house at least and maybe an estimate of how many people. Sci-fi dystopia shit really if it is truly possible.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

“With only 6 wireless nodes we can make an algorithm to determine a napping person is in or near the foot of their bed” is so funny.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

if i ~~read~~ skimmed through correctly, nodes in that case are basically wireless devices (so iot perverts + phones/watches/audio/tv).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

so the opsec here doesn't really change much. prefer wired whenever possible and don't fill your house with iot. how useful is this method if the person they want to track only has two broadcasters (their router and their phone)?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Whether they're in their house or not is all that's really needed for any monitoring purposes I can think of.

Of course, if you've compromised their 6 damn wireless nodes, you also know that they're home when their phone switches to wifi.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

there's way easier ways to know if someone is home. stakeouts, fake pizza delivery, tracking your car

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The real horror is how far away that bed is from the wall.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dystopian sci-fi authors really are the prophets of our age.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

They need to step away from the lathe.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Isn't this basically what they did in The Dark Knight? You know, when Morgan Freeman was so horrified by the implications that he made the whole room self destruct afterward?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

i think implied tech was that the phones were emitting noises to be like mini sonars (which also works, but requires hacking the phones). At least there was some pinging animation, if i remember correctly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Snowden specifically mentioned that when he leaked his information while talking about PRISM.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Our best bet at stopping this is getting ankle bracelet companies to go to war to protect their market share.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

becoming multiple cat person to own the isp watchers

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Comrades, we must practice vigilant opsec

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Ourdoor cat Hexbears stay losing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of some new research that each person’s breathing pattern is like a fingerprint that can identify them. An ordinary smartphone microphone is sufficient

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

brb connecting an rng to my pacemaker before the next action

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Another use I thought of, once it's thoroughly proven it could be used as criminal evidence. "You claimed to be home sleeping by yourself but your signal data shows someone left your room at 1:00AM and returned at 3, just when the crime occurred." They can track you with your phone already but the trick of just not having a phone on you wouldn't work. Wired life wins.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

The post on .world links to one of comcast’s pages about it where they explicitly say

“Comcast may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you in connection with any law enforcement investigation or proceeding, any dispute to which Comcast is a party, or pursuant to a court order or subpoena.”

So yeah, absolutely could be used against you

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

well, what xfinity is peddling is solved by just using openwrt/at least your own router/access point

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You already get put on a watchlist for downloading Linux

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

called peer ip? everyone on the list lmao, doesn't mean i will put ring camera in my toilet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

No more wifi, only wired connections

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

RSS in a wireless network. Don't breathe this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I always wondered how they scanned for life signs in Star Trek and now I know