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[–] 58 points 5 months ago

Well that’s a fresh new level to our already nightmarish hellscape

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Well this needs to made illegal to use.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    Doubt that will stop the US government.

    But as someone else said above, if they have this much access to the place where they can gather the training data necessary to fine tune this to figure out where you are and track you through the space, they don't need this.

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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Meanwhile my wife doesn't recognize me when I come home from work =/

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Looks like that faraday suit will be coming in handy after all! And to think my wife made fun of me for it!

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    wait, you can talk about Faraday cages And have a wife ??!!

    i thought it was either or but now I am sus

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Would totally marry a cute girl talking about Faraday cages informally because marriage is a property arrangement between two people and their state which my beloved and I would not have

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I’m pretty sure it self-destructs if you enter “Lucius Fox” into the command console and hit enter.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    wondering if I can line an existing hat with tinfoil rather than having to fashion a new one.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    I always thought it would be sweet to have a whole house camera to see inside your walls. Knowing where all your pipes are, knowing where voids are, maybe detecting leaks inside your walls, animal/rodent detection, etc. Antenna arrays in GHz bands should be able to have pretty good resolution on metallic reflectors. I guess add intruder detection too. If our privacy is being violated outside our homes, I'd at least like to leverage for some good inside my home.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This bounces off of walls, for the most part, so it will do the exact opposite of what you want. It will show you everything inside the house, not everything inside the walls.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    I don't think so. Drywall is fairly transparent to GHz, but I guess depends on if your home is made of sticks or something sturdier. People reflect better, which AFAIK is what this technology is highlighting.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago
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    This has a lot of dystopian uses, but I also hope that it can be used by the open source community for home automation. That could be really great.

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