I guess it is good to be aware of what’s possible. But all this stuff about using WiFi to measure things about people—it’s a bit creepy, right? I mean, to state the obvious, we (as a society) have got a bunch of poorly patched or corporate controlled WiFi routers attached to the network. What a surveillance catastrophe waiting to happen.

I mean, heart rate? Do we have a giant network that can tell where everybody is and whether they are having a strong emotional response to anything?

▲ transpute 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> we (as a society) have got a bunch of poorly patched or corporate controlled WiFi routers

Mobile phone spyware can attack poorly patched or corporate controlled WiFi radio basebands, for 3D imaging of human user behavior.

> heart rate

Laptop demo (2022), https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/respiration... | https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/...

  Intel Labs introduces.. respiration sensing via Wi-Fi.

▲ devmor 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are not exaggerating to be weirded out by this. It’s already being used to monitor people in their homes by law enforcement.

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eth0up 5 days ago | parent [-]

Your comment should not be gray, as you've stated a rarely known fact. I used to have an old brochure with the exact model number of the device you refer to. And it's been around for well over a decade.

I'll try to find the model to rescue your post. People can be so fucking unreasonable here it makes me sad.

But I know exactly what you're referring to.

Note: it's also worth considering its applications in parallel construction and that it's indeed so rarely known, that it doesn't require a warrant.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range-R

Edit II: they were, at one time around 2011 definitely having a lot of fun with these devices in my town here in Florida.

Edit III: also of interest, https://camero-tech.com/

Edit IV: https://www.policemag.com/technology/article/15541542/first-... - Detex Pro, by MaXentric

	▲	devmor 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you! I wanted to provide a source, but I have literally only seen it in action at a trade show, and could not remember what it was actually called.

▲ cyanydeez 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean the Matrix wasn't a technical blueprint for humanity.

Am so confused.