I wanna Faraday'd House.
“AI has turned every WiFi router into a camera that can work in the dark”
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#12It's not a "camera", you need more than one WiFi device and you can't identify people. Still impressive and scary without the hyberbole.
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#13In 2016 there was an Atlantic article detailing all the different ways wifi could be used to spy on you.
> By analyzing the exact ways that a Wi-Fi signal is altered when a human moves through it, researchers can “see” what someone writes with their finger in the air, identify a particular person by the way that they walk, and even read a person’s lips with startling accuracy—in some cases even if a router isn’t in the same room as the person performing the actions.
I'm not surprised training models on this data made the process much easier.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi...
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#14It's not a "camera", you need more than one WiFi device and you can't identify people. Still impressive and scary without the hyberbole.
gait is fingerprintable
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#15A relevant (WIP) standard in this context could become 802.11bf „WiFi Sensing“ [1]. If plenty of common consumer devices will support it (maybe even some with an on-board camera), it may become hard to avoid.
[1] https://standards.ieee.org/beyond-standards/ieee-802-11bf-ai...
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#16There you go Havana syndrome.
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#18In 2016 there was an Atlantic article detailing all the different ways wifi could be used to spy on you. > By analyzing the exact ways that a Wi-Fi signal is altered when a human moves through it, researchers can “see” what someone writes with their finger in the air, identify a particular person by the way that they walk, and even read a person’s lips with startling accuracy—in some cases even if a router isn’t in t…
Anyone else picturing this as like the Netflix version of Daredevil when they show you how he perceives the world through sound?
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#19The new 802.11bf spec includes people and gesture detection. There are already a few home security companies that utilize wifi sensing to monitor occupancy.
https://thenextweb.com/news/wi-fi-sensing-ieee-802-11-bf-ana...
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#20It's not a "camera", you need more than one WiFi device and you can't identify people. Still impressive and scary without the hyberbole.
gait is fingerprintable
Good point. Actually I thought a lot about this without any connection to tech. Because I noticed that we (I) am able to discern people from quite some distance and wondered if there's some evolutionary reason for this.