eleijeep comments on Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 46 points 5 months ago (6 children)

This requires training on the specific network that you want to target, so unless the snoop has several weeks worth of training data where they know exactly what room you're in at what time, then it's not a realistic attack. Someone who has that much inside information doesn't need this technology to know where in the building you are.

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[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

What’s stopping someone from just deploying their own wifi networks around, similar to flock cameras?

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[–] MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 months ago

Presumably, the room itself. This isn't about the router so much as the shape of the room and the way the waves move through the room in terms of data.

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[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So, you use it to map out an empty office and then to surveil workers?

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

It has to be trained on the disturbances in the EM field that people create so no, an empty office wouldn't train it.

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[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

But... if the router collects the data... it is just a matter of time. The room will stay constant. People will change. And there you have the fundamental information to infer ID

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[–] NoosFraba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago*

I don't think anyone choosing this method cares about a week or two. That's a payday my guy, you could blink. I live my life two weeks at a time and years have gone by in seconds =P

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