I predict that, within my lifetime, the US will start precision drone-striking US citizens on American soil.
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several years ago they got that guy in dallas who was icing pigs with a bomb on a glorified RC car, does that count?
what does RSS stand for here
received signal strength
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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
I can not stress enough how important and easy it is to just have your own router. Please don't use the ISP provided router its a waste of money, and a privacy nightmare. You can get a much better one for pretty cheap instead of renting one from them.
What about if your only internet access is satellite (unusable) or MOFI?
Whats MOFI mobile wifi? It's possible to buy your own regular router, and use a mobile modem. I have a thinkpad i turned into a OpenWrt router that i tether my phone to, and then it connects to a normal wifi access point that sends the signal to my other devices. So that i can turn 5G into Wifi at home. Works quite well.
Whats MOFI mobile wifi?
Sort of but there's more to it. Like you, I can just use my phone as a hotspot and use its data plan for my internet access but there are of course strict limits to that. After so many GB (which I use in 2 days on a monthly allotment), I get throttled even with an "unlimited" data plan. The way I understand it is that carriers sell business level LTE/5g plans to companies that they won't sell to individuals, plans that actually are unlimited without data cap throttling. So companies sprang up that buy these business plans from the carriers and then resell them to individuals, almost always in rural areas who have no access to broadband.
The main thing I expect is the sim card you put in the router that allows you access, but I think the router is specialized too? Like my MOFI router supposedly switches between carriers depending on which ones are the least congested and best reception. What matters to me is that it's actual access without throttling. Before, I couldn't watch more than 2 movies in a month or download a ps4 game. Now it's like I'm a normal person with real internet access. Well aside from the latency. So I don't know, maybe I can get my own MOFI router and just pay the rural internet access company for the sim card, but I haven't seen much about people doing that which is why I was asking.
I always wondered how they scanned for life signs in Star Trek and now I know
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.
idk how big your rooms are but being off by 2m would have me outside or in a hallway or in another room rn
In Ghost Recon you have to throw a special grenade to see through the enemies in the walls
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?
Snowden specifically mentioned that when he leaked his information while talking about PRISM.
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
Dystopian sci-fi authors really are the prophets of our age.
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.
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
well, what xfinity is peddling is solved by just using openwrt/at least your own router/access point
You already get put on a watchlist for downloading Linux
Is this confirmed?
called peer ip? everyone on the list lmao, doesn't mean i will put ring camera in my toilet.
thanks for the blanking. Seeing this go around elsewhere, wild how its still cool to openly shit on ND people
dunno why it's hard to use tinfoil hat wearers, it's a symbol for this exact shit :(
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.
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"
can I ask what it said originally?
I'm guessing something inflammatory towards people with schizophrenia
No more wifi, only wired connections
RSS in a wireless network. Don't breathe this.
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”
“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.
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.
there's way easier ways to know if someone is home. stakeouts, fake pizza delivery, tracking your car
if i read through correctly, nodes in that case are basically wireless devices (so iot perverts + phones/watches/audio/tv)
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)?
good enough for hellfire missile tho. Or pinpointing a room in a building
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.
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.
Our best bet at stopping this is getting ankle bracelet companies to go to war to protect their market share.
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Comrades, we must practice vigilant opsec
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Yeah man, tell me more about CHYNA being an Orwellian police state and shit.
We’re so cooked man