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Apropos of nothing, a conductive mesh with 1/2" holes suffices to block 2.4 Ghz signals, while 1/4" holes suffice to block 5 Ghz signals. https://www.homedepot.com/s/hardware%20cloth
We build walls out of materials opaque to visible light. Our walls are basically windows for wifi, so make them opaque! It's all EMR
Are there any home solutions to wifi sensing/location sensing at home for diy iot purposes?
I feel like “putting wifi in my home” is similar to “putting bodies that emit heat in my home”. Neither of which implicitly grant law enforcement to come and observe either through the walls of my home. I am not a lawyer, nor am I familiar with the SCOTUS case referenced in the article. But I really hope it is precedent enough to make any judge throw out any such violations without any hassle.
Still enables parallel construction. They can illegally search and surveil you without your knowledge and there's not much anyone can do about it. They can't submit any findings as evidence but they can totally anonymously tip off other authorities or something. It must be physically impossible to violate our privacy or it doesn't work.
People keep using the term as though it implies some legal means of fabricating evidence against someone: which is ridiculous because if you're willing to fabricate evidence, you don't need to actually find any.
It's also worth noting that in the case of incidental wifi surveillance, it's likely the plain-sight doctrine would apply: if you're being imaged and positioned by broadcasts you yourself are making and nearby devices can receive, then this would be ruled in plain sight and rightly so (I can't stop my routers and devices from detecting nearby devices as part of interference avoidance).
If someone is worried that their government could be flashing the firmware of their WiFi router to use the beamforming antennae of the router to track them walking around their home.... Then they should be way more worried that their government is using any access to their wifi router at all. Like, you got way bigger things to worry about at that point, right? There are a million surveillance side-channels that could…
If someone is worried that their government could be flashing the firmware of their WiFi router to use the beamforming antennae of the router to track them walking around their home.... Then they should be way more worried that their government is using any access to their wifi router at all. Like, you got way bigger things to worry about at that point, right? There are a million surveillance side-channels that could…
I disagree. The trajectory of technology generally is: possible -> prototype -> product -> common -> common and cheap If Wi-Fi surveillance were to become common and cheap, other methods would be produced to make data harvesting common and cheap to the surveillance state/bigco. The best way to avoid that dystopia is to safeguard it early in the process.
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Still enables parallel construction. They can illegally search and surveil you without your knowledge and there's not much anyone can do about it. They can't submit any findings as evidence but they can totally anonymously tip off other authorities or something. It must be physically impossible to violate our privacy or it doesn't work.
Parallel construction only works if you've actually committed a crime and left evidence somewhere it can be plausibly found - i.e. "a random search of the public woods near your area found a shallow grave, and tire-tracks matching your car" - but the search was conducted because what actually happened was you were telling a guy "yes I definitely killed Tony and buried him in the woods". People keep using the term as…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still enables parallel construction. They can illegally search and surveil you without your knowledge and there's not much anyone can do about it. They can't submit any findings as evidence but they can totally anonymously tip off other authorities or something. It must be physically impossible to violate our privacy or it doesn't work.
Parallel construction only works if you've actually committed a crime and left evidence somewhere it can be plausibly found - i.e. "a random search of the public woods near your area found a shallow grave, and tire-tracks matching your car" - but the search was conducted because what actually happened was you were telling a guy "yes I definitely killed Tony and buried him in the woods". People keep using the term as…
A number of years ago I worked for a company that developed a home security product using this kind of tech: https://www.cognitivesystems.com/
Reminds me of The Thought Emporium's camera that can see WiFi. https://youtu.be/g3LT_b6K0Mc?si=PRtkeXRqq8UmhpC9
I know this stuff is dystopic, but I personally find it really cool. That said, I also disable WiFi and prefer ethernet wherever possible...
If someone is worried that their government could be flashing the firmware of their WiFi router to use the beamforming antennae of the router to track them walking around their home.... Then they should be way more worried that their government is using any access to their wifi router at all. Like, you got way bigger things to worry about at that point, right? There are a million surveillance side-channels that could…