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[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We've tried icing pigs to some success, but has anyone thought about pigging ICE?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

if they keep running a round in masks with no ID there ought to be some really cool blue on blue any day now let-them-fight

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

what does RSS stand for here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours 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] 0 points 5 hours ago

brb connecting an rng to my pacemaker before the next action

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't this still be done if someone had their own router?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Only if they have access to it. You can secure your own router, but your ISP has full remote access to the one they give you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What about if your only internet access is satellite (unusable) or MOFI?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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] 0 points 18 hours 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] 0 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours 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] 0 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours 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] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

They need to step away from the lathe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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] 0 points 22 hours 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] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You already get put on a watchlist for downloading Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

Is this confirmed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day 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] 0 points 23 hours 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] 0 points 21 hours 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] 0 points 21 hours 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] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

can I ask what it said originally?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

I'm guessing something inflammatory towards people with schizophrenia

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

No more wifi, only wired connections

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

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

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