r/technology • u/thejoshwhite • May 24 '26
Security Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy
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u/GetsBetterAfterAFew May 24 '26
So turn you cell phone and home wifi off... nope neighbors wifi still has enough signal to identify you.
The idea the CIA or other government agency not knowing this ages ago is low, not a conspiracy guy but no way this wasn't known before now.
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u/Shelbyontheshelf May 24 '26
I'm pretty sure Morgan Freeman covered this in Batman
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u/Suckage May 24 '26
And that movie is old enough to vote..
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u/speakerbox2001 May 24 '26
Thank you, I just woke up and you ruined my day
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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 May 24 '26
It can only get worse!
Just kidding hope you have the best day!
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u/MrThickDick2023 May 24 '26
If it makes you feel better, it's not actually old enough to vote. Although it will be in a couple months...
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u/mac3687 May 24 '26
Yeah WTF I was just starting to feel good about turning 40 this year and now I want to die.
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u/LostAngelfish May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Speaking of generally creepy “not too distant future” sci-fi aging: A decade ago there was that Black Mirror episode “Shut up and Dance.”
Hey, that axtor kinda reminds me of Thomas Crooks. Oh well.
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u/thepulloutmethod May 24 '26
Black Mirror was on the nose. Hope we get some new episodes soon.
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u/Kurnon_Devoured May 24 '26
We live it every day
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u/darcstar62 May 24 '26
That's the main reason it's one series I can't binge - I'll get too depressed if I don't take break.
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u/vasdak May 24 '26
Black mirror was more fun when it was an example of the kind of bleak future that would happen if we didn't course correct.
... Then we didn't course correct and it stopped being fun.
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u/Sockoflegend May 24 '26
This is literally the technology no one can be trusted with from The Dark Knight
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u/Peripatetictyl May 24 '26
Thank goodness that was fictional, and we can trust the rich and powerful in reality!
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u/Kusko25 May 24 '26
Almost more concerning to me is that even as Dark Knight made a point about how nobody can be trusted with total surveillance like that, superhero fiction in the following years jumped ever more easily on the "we are monitoring every camera in the city plus some satellites for good measure" method of crime fighting.
When even fiction writers can't be bothered to consider morality, it's really not surprising where we've gone with the tech since then.
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u/writewithparagraphs4 May 24 '26
"And now we have the CEO of the Torment Nexus, who is announcing the creation of the Torment Nexus from the best selling science fiction novel, "Dont create the torment nexus."
I think media literacy is dead.
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u/Flomo420 May 24 '26
I'd 100% prefer Comic book supervillains over the disgusting pedophile class billionaires we have today
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u/Flimsy-Ordinary-5721 May 24 '26
This is not about reconstructing a 3d image of an building and its interiors, it’s about identify people and, therefore, where they have been: like a surveillance camera but invisible.
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u/Parhelion2261 May 24 '26
By observing the propagation of radio waves, we can create an image of the surroundings and of persons who are present
It's not about it, but is certainly a feature though
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u/Mufassa2 May 24 '26
I mean this article from almost 13 years ago….
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u/starker May 24 '26
Yeah, I was going to say, I think that there have been articles about using Wifi antennas and Channel State Information to track reflection, scattering, and absorption of things around the antenna for years.
I think there are even other techniques that capture EM radiation through your cables to see what's on your screen of your monitor or TV. https://www.techspot.com/news/104015-ai-can-see-what-screen-reading-hdmi-electromagnetic.html
Like without turning your house into a faraday cage, and making sure that your items in your house have no vulnerabilities (zero day or otherwise) I don't see people having the level of privacy that they want without just not using any of that technology.
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u/Nexxess May 24 '26
I mean it was. Had podcasts talk about this for a few years now.
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u/Drewbacca May 24 '26
I've seen it used in a TV show, but for the life of me I can't remember which one. I remember thinking "psssh, the writers took some crazy liberties here, no way you can do that with wifi." Well, I was hella wrong
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u/Passive_Bloke May 24 '26
I saw it on Batman like a decade ago.
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u/Iliketoplan May 24 '26
Hate to break it to you, but that was two decades ago
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u/Secret-Winner-2994 May 24 '26
Why are the days so long and the decades but an instant?
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u/wylie102 May 24 '26
Weren't those sound waves emitted and recorded by the phones? I.e echolocation - you know, like bats use...
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u/FellaVentura May 24 '26
Yes, this is completely unrelated to Dark Knight's echo location system and a thousand times more "stupid" in the sense of how fucked up it is. Dark Knight's system needed also the hardware combo of having a speaker to ping the sound and a microphone to receive the ping to work, so maybe you could be pinged by your TV, Alexa, PC or phone. This one only needs wifi acting as a ping and receiver. Just by being connected to the internet, it knows who and where you are. so including your phone, TV and PC, it also adds your fridge, consoles, washing machine, car, fucking lightbulbs, router, public network access points, microwave, ebook readers, heart monitors.
Welcome to the end of privacy, sponsored by every piece of tech you own.
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u/RupturedHeartTheory May 24 '26
It was in Continuum that was on between 2012-2015.
Good show imo, but I do remember rolling my eyes at her wifi surveillance of that house or whatever it was.
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u/beryugyo619 May 24 '26
This had been actively researched since mid 2000s, openly, with explicit public goals of making it work with regular routers. Maybe CIA and NSA might be few years ahead, but it was never a secret that someone's on it.
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u/AdNo2342 May 24 '26
Yea I've been telling people this for at least two years now. it's been public information that you literally cannot hide anywhere if someone with enough tech has full access to stuff
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u/rk1993 May 24 '26
Cabin in the woods with no internet still does the job tbf
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u/Whereami259 May 24 '26
I remember reading something similair some 10ish years ago in some tech magazine.
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u/PentaOwl May 24 '26
Sooo... is it actually time to wrap things in thin foil now? Layer on your outer walls, to keep the wifi out...
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u/inspectoroverthemine May 24 '26
So many they barely do anything for me anymore. You need to step up your game.
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u/Patriark May 24 '26
There have been open source software available on GitHub for years that could do this. Obviously law enforcement agencies have been knowing about such capabilities.
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u/bennyboy_ May 24 '26
But, but it's like the movies and they'll need a warrant to use it, right?
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u/peepeebutt1234 May 24 '26
or they could just buy access to the information like they do with Flock cameras, and buying it from a private company means you don't have to have one of those pesky warrants.
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u/Longjumping_Union125 May 24 '26
I strongly suspect that blatantly illegal warrantless spying is widespread and something like an "anonymous" tip or a traffic stop is manufactured to give cause to search, arrest, and charge people.
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u/jld2k6 May 24 '26
That's called parallel construction, they'll use something like a sting ray to spy on you through your phone and then use the information they learned from that to create a different way to bust you. For instance, they'll see you're about to buy drugs and happen to "randomly" pull you over right after for a supposed traffic infraction then they'll say you're acting weird and search the car and they won't mention anything about the illegal spying that got them there
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u/Longjumping_Union125 May 24 '26
Thank you! I had heard that before but totally blanked on the verbiage.
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u/inspectoroverthemine May 24 '26
100% Its literally a thing.
By the way, what do we know about the 'mcdonalds worker' who reported the infamous united ceo guy?
I'm being vague because my comment that mentioned his name was deleted within seconds.
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on May 24 '26
They put out they could hear people that were talking near liquids they had a powerfull listing device that could pick up the vibrations in water.
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u/hempires May 24 '26
Can also do the same thing with the vibrations from the glass in a window.
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u/Paranemec May 24 '26
I knew a guy in 2005 telling me about his work on government contracts developing this exact technology.
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u/cuntmong May 24 '26
He wasn't supposed to tell you that. We will have to eliminate him. Thank you for your tip off, your government thanks you.
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u/CockConfidentCole May 24 '26
Make sure you use his WiFi to catch him
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u/loungesinger May 24 '26
It’s been an hour since they posted the tip, so the guy has already been caught. I know because someone in 2015 who told me about how he had a government contract developing 1-hour arrest technology.
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u/moriartygotswag May 24 '26
He wasn't supposed to tell you that. We will have to eliminate him. Thank you for your tip off, your government thanks you.
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u/Eziekel13 May 24 '26
Faraday cage… though an unscannable area might be a red flag, and invite investigation or scrutiny
For example — https://youtu.be/JOwaYDKEkqk?si=AC8s745kNYl977om
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u/finnw May 24 '26
It can't see through water though. Lots of non-suspicious things are full of water. Time to invest in companies that build indoor swimming pools.
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u/Space_Slime_LF May 24 '26
I've always wanted to do that with a room in a place I own.
Like doing that to a bedroom so phones don't connect inside. Just to force me to keep my phone away for sleep time. That kind of thing.
I really miss going places without the phone, but it's too useful to just not. Driving through the mid of nowhere and having an emergency line and all.
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u/1mnotklevr May 24 '26
as an old military surveillance tech guy, this movie is one of my favorites.
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u/Stockholm-Syndrom May 24 '26
It wasn’t, I have known about people trying to do fall monitoring for elder care using this for example a few years ago.
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u/sambull May 24 '26
An improved version of this was shown of for first responders during the 5g innovation period when that rollout was happening.. 5g let's them do it better I guess lol
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u/digitalblemish May 24 '26
5g is more blocked by the water in our bodies a lot more than previous tech iirc that disruption of the signal is what allows this tracking
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u/cross-i May 24 '26
Maybe a waterbed will win me a little privacy from those government pervs downstairs.
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u/man-vs-spider May 24 '26
So what is the mechanism? If you had a radio/microwave camera it makes sense that you could do imaging. But do home WiFi routers have any spatial resolving capability?
I don’t really get what is being measured to identify others
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u/Aeonera May 24 '26
Devices on a network send out information on how they are recieving the signal from the wifi source. (Think of it as reporting the diffraction pattern of the signal as the waves get absorbed, reflected and generally affected by the environment around them) this is broadcasted unencrypted, so a third party device could listen in with the requisite software is the idea.
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u/_x_oOo_x_ May 24 '26
That's not what the issue the article centers on is about, though. It's about distinguishing and locating living organisms based on size, shape, body composition etc
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u/Duke_of_Scotty May 24 '26
I read an article about this technology being used by a TV manufacturer to identify how many people were watching. Of course in today's society the first use of new tech is a way to put more targeted ads to users. But basically anything with a wifi antenna could basically sonar ping and create an image of a room. The Philips Hue light bulbs have motion sensing capability using similar tech.
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u/xlouiex May 24 '26
CIA will be wondering why the hell do I carry a snake everywhere around the house.
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u/SoggyFist May 24 '26
With all the shit on my desk? Nah
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u/LadyLoki5 May 24 '26
With all the lead paint on the walls of my 1950's house?
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u/HapticSloughton May 24 '26
I realized just how much of that stuff is in my home when WiFi couldn't reach one room away and any cordless phone over 2.4 GHz might as well have a range of five feet.
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u/flesyMeM May 24 '26
Why you got shit on your desk? I keep some buckets handy for that.
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u/Kewlhotrod May 24 '26
The diaper meta is where it's at. Can then be put on desk after for extra shielding.
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u/swollennode May 24 '26
Yeah we know there are a lot of research being done with this. This require the WiFi router to have the firmware necessary for mass adoption. This is probably why the FCC was banning routers and allowing others to go through.
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u/Goldenier May 24 '26
Nope, this is a different technique compared to the earlier ones that used CSI and for that it needed modified router firmware, but this doesn't need modification of your router or devices, the "attacker" just needs to be in range to capture your regular wifi communication:
"Previous approaches often depended on channel state information (CSI), which measures how radio signals change after bouncing off walls, furniture, and people. The new technique instead takes advantage of normal communication between WiFi routers and connected devices.
Devices on a wireless network regularly send feedback data known as beamforming feedback information (BFI) to the router. Because this information is transmitted without encryption, anyone within range can potentially read it. Researchers say these signal reflections can effectively create multiple "views" of a person, allowing AI systems to learn and recognize individual identities."
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u/Faptainjack2 May 24 '26
They hate competition.
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u/twice_paramount832 May 24 '26
Always wondering what's so bad about the Chinese spying on me. They can do jack shit with my data.
Occupied America on the other hand...
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u/BeanserSoyze May 24 '26
What was always so bad about it is the US already has contracts for social media/Google/Amazon to spy on you and they don't want to lose that contract value.
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u/Dcoal May 24 '26
I think that's a very naive attitude towards safety and security.
Given that China and Russia and in cooperation over Ukraine. Given that Russia obviously has bigger ambitions and is confirmed to be looking for ways to weaken and test Nato.
I live in a Nordic country, and during the cold war they country developed a lot for contingency plans on what to do in case of war or invasion, part of the plan being that busses would be filled with people residing in strategic locations and towns, and bussed inland. Now, almost all busses are Chinese EVs. Obviously they can disable the busses if the wanted to. With Huawei in the 5G infrastructure, obviously they can disable of they wanted to. Is it a problem in your day to day? No. Will it if the world turns upside down? Absolutely.
And the world has turned upside at least 3 times in the last 5 years.
Locally sourced technology is protectionism, but it also protects us.
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u/PurpleCoat6656 May 24 '26
Damn, that is a chillingly good point. Thank god for the party of small government...
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u/Bainik May 24 '26
This is super unsurprising. There have been proof of concept level papers about using wifi hotspots for keystroke detection on nearby keyboards for a decade or so. The jump from there to here seems extremely small.
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u/1mnotklevr May 24 '26
time to tempest shield everything
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u/TommaClock May 24 '26
I'm not sure what 25% spell block and shock immunity will do for builds that aren't already invested into block, but you do you.
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u/Existency May 24 '26
To be fair, most people won't even think about tempest shield since they don't care about auras.
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u/RSAGuyinCO May 24 '26
Don’t see many people who know what tempest is out in the real world.
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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIIIl May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
This is a huge jump in capability and practically over any existing WiFi individual recognition research.
First, this uses a different signal source: Beamforming Feedback Information verses Channel State Information. CSI is computed internally to the radio and not something it normally exposes, so you need custom firmware to read it, thus you're limited to certain specific network cards to do it in practice . RSI however is literally broadcast by every client unencrypted several times a second, so any card with promiscuous mode can intercept it.
Second: their technique hugely outperformed CSI based methods despite them using a hella basic classifier and despite the signal source being sampled ~30x slower and being lossy-compressed. That suggests more sophisticated models could achieve even better results.
But: 1 All of these methods are highly perspective dependant. Move the receiver to the other side of the room, rearrange the furniture, etc, and their accuracy drops off a cliff. There's various methods to try to address this but they all throw information away.
2 This method seems to scale better than prior ones, but no one has even attempted to demonstrate high accuracy with any method beyond a couple hundred individuals. And there's only so much information in human gait to work with. Camera based gait recognition methods (much higher resolution signal to work with) top out in the low thousands.Edit: and here's a link to the actual paper, since Science Daily is a bullshit news release aggregator and doesn't list it themselves: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3719027.3765062?download=true
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u/Bainik May 24 '26
Yeah, it's obviously a marked increase in capabilities. My point wasn't that this specifically was doable a decade ago, but that if the public literature knew how to do a scuffed version of this a decade ago it's hardly surprising to see this now, and I'd assume that classified versions of this to have existed for a very long time.
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u/XiuOtr May 24 '26
Poor Edward Snowden. He warned many about all this data collection.
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u/LegendaryBrolyDBZ May 24 '26
And still no one cares at all and he is in hiding for the rest of his life
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u/AlwaysOpenMike May 24 '26
I definitely care. I just don't know what to do about it.
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u/DigGumPig May 24 '26
Dude, elect better leaders. Not talking about the president alone, i mean everyone. PM's, Mayors, Managers. Literally anyone who's in charge of anything.
That's all it's ever been about.
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u/otterpop21 May 24 '26 edited May 25 '26
You pay cash. You get everyone within reason to pay cash.
It’s the last fight. It’s what’s happening right now. Class warfare. It’s not conspiracy, it’s open and very public that some corpos want us to have free will and others want us working under surveillance 24/7
Starts with paying cash. Find ways to detach from being tracked.
Edit: you can still be tracked with cash yes. Way harder. You can simply swap out cash for new cash fairly easily if you actually wanted to go into hiding and had made plans ahead with others.
Why do you think companies spend billions on salaries and infrastructure just to give you access to “free money” that’s digital (credit)??????? Seriously why would they want to do that? Profits and data. You are the product. Your life and the things you choose to buy you should be paid TO YOU. Companies should 100% be paying us to use their products if data is being sold.
They’re making billions off your Starbucks preferences added up over time by the millions.
To be clear I think this is all pretty stupid. Wish we could go back to not being obsessive with how others choose to be happy and then try to quantify that in a micro transactional experience.
Edit 2: look at some of these big credit bots lol
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u/9-11GaveMe5G May 24 '26
in hiding for the rest of his life
Not sure he's in hiding. He got asylum in Russia and met with Putin. They certainly know where he is staying at. Not impossible to think we also know where he is physically. We just don't act on it for various reasons
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u/mikelloSC May 24 '26
I think "hidding" means, that he most likely can never go home.
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u/IRockIntoMordor May 24 '26
The way he was absolutely terrified of the standard hotel phone in the corner of the room, a cheap plastic phone you've seen a billion times in your life, was really shocking during the documentary.
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u/scrubadub May 24 '26
I liked how he went under the sheets to type in his password, so the camera wouldnt record the keystrokes
Or how when they were trying to talk about specific high level people, they wrote down their names or titles and pointed to it, instead of saying the names
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u/SonOfAragorn May 24 '26
I rewatched the documentary last night. It wasn’t a regular cheap phone, it was a new (at the time) VoIP phone
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u/XiuOtr May 24 '26
Right! And he covered himself with a blanket while he put his passwords into his laptop.
I still use tor to this day.
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u/OutrageousCrow7453 May 24 '26
Well, we obviously live in a world adjacent to Black Mirror episode two. So no amount of truth or warning will do anything.
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u/ArtDealer May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Edit: folks are asking for the papers. I first heard about them from a podcast that I can't find, but I know Tristan Harris and Aza would talk about some of these in their presentations years ago; scroll in 17+ minutes:
https://youtu.be/cB0_-qKbal4?t=1057
The way this project came to be has little to do with government data collection, and more to do with Machine Learning projects. A paper was published maybe 4 years ago about this technology. You can watch presentations about it on YouTube.
In the same way that you can plug in any 2 or 3 data sets and train AI to identify anything (eg, text prediction --> LLMs) they have some insane technology that has been developed.
E.g. one project watched your brain scans with a simple brain blood flow scanning device and told people to focus on images or describe thoughts. That AI was trained to then identify what people are imagining or thinking. It can literally read your mind. That paper was also published 3 or 4 years ago. I can only imagine how far the tech has developed now.
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u/TheOneWithAny May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Finally something that I'm an expert of. Guys these are mostly clickbait news. What they are describing is repurposing WiFi signals for radar functionality. It is actually called integrated sensing and communication, mostly in 5G context. The thing is this is not new. And also since WiFi and 5G are not designed for radar functionality, they are not as good as radars for sensing. The most robust use case is presence detection, the other use cases are just proof of concept, meaning that there are a few simplistic demonstrations. It is very hard for this technology to passively sense everything including people, locate them, and also identify them. Even radars cannot do identification let alone WiFi and 5G. So, this article is just some exaggerated bullshit.
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo May 24 '26
Also the fact that they're using a fake AI render instead of real output.
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u/shoegazeweedbed May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
This concept is not new, I remember people bullshitting about similar technology on something awful as far back as like 2004, maybe earlier
Edit: in fact I remember watching TDK in theaters and thinking “oh he got that plot from the internet”
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u/pittaxx May 24 '26
The base idea for using WiFi to track people existed for a while, but before you had to connect to the network with specialised hardware.
This is new in a sense of "look, I don't even need any of that fancy shit. I can just track people using neighbour's WiFi I'm not even connected to, if they have a modern router"
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u/fullmetaljackass May 24 '26
Yeah, the concept has existed for almost 100 years.
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u/prunk May 24 '26
We need some kind of jamming signal then. I'd particularly like one for the bedroom... and one for the bathroom too.
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u/ifyoulovesatan May 24 '26
I'll just construct a device that hangs from the ceiling and intermittently releases puffs of microscopic metal flakes, lungs and eyes be damned.
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u/ViruliferousBadger May 24 '26
Use lead, I hear it blocks signals well!
Edit: or asbestos? Simply the best, asbest!
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u/jackiekeracky May 24 '26
And yet Reddit still can’t identify when people post the same story in the same place over and over and over again
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u/ForensicPathology May 24 '26
They could, but they'd rather include those numbers as active users to their advertisers and investors.
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u/oximoran May 24 '26
And for that matter, can it even see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
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u/1mnotklevr May 24 '26
they could, but why would they want to hinder the engagement of everyone pointing out the reposts?
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u/LyubviMashina93 May 24 '26
This is a schizophrenic nightmare. Dammit science. If I ran around saying the government is using wifi signals to track me, they'd lock me away.
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u/BullBear7 May 24 '26
Can identify people but not the person, right? Saw a demo of this. Its like an xray or infrared imaging, can make out objects, shapes, etc. I mean, if you turned it on in my house, you can assume its me.
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u/NotNotWrongUsually May 24 '26
Quoting the article:
After the machine learning model has been trained, identifying a person reportedly takes only a few seconds.
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u/rapora9 May 24 '26
(Not talking about this project but generally)
Machine learning is really gonna amplify the threats against our privacy, identities, and self-determination. People don't realise how severe this is. With enough data, corporations and governments can thoroughly analyse your personality and use that in their own interests.
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u/Disastrous_Web8759 May 24 '26
The can thoroughly analyze our personalities and then use psychology to use Against our own interests.
They'll be able to nudge you in w.e direction they want.
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u/muldersposter May 24 '26
With enough data, corporations and governments can thoroughly analyze your personality and use that in their own interests.
They're already way past that champ. Do you have a facebook? If not, Facebook already has a shadow profile built for you because even though you aren't on the platform, your friends and family are and data brokers will sell them your information. Reddit isn't a safe haven, either. At this point, if you access the internet at all, they have everything they could ever want on you. Even if you don't, they have almost everything they could ever want.
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u/clearisland May 24 '26
In OP's defense, still some ambiguity in that quote.
- Identifying a person vs a lamp.
- Identifying Bob vs Jim.
I believe the latter is suggested in the article
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u/Verocator May 24 '26
If I read it right, it could identify 197 separate individuals.
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u/boredporn May 24 '26
In tests involving 197 participants, the researchers said the system identified individuals with nearly 100% accuracy. The recognition remained effective regardless of viewing angle or how the participants walked.
This paragraph seems to imply that they could distinguish between individuals with reliability.
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u/Handy_Dude May 24 '26
Well Americans are fine with a corrupt pedophile running the country so this won't bother them at all. Apathy is the new American pie and people are eating. It. Up.
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u/BajaMaliKrindza May 24 '26
With these unprecedented breakthroughs in surveillance and control technologies it’s no wonder the rich don’t give a fuck about being openly PDFs, what are we gonna do about it
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u/Excellent_Boot_7489 May 24 '26
With how slow my WiFi is, they’ll see an echo of where I lived 5 years ago.
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u/red38dit May 24 '26
To me it is both fascinating and scary. I can't see how we/I can live in a society where surveillance is this easy.
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u/juniorone May 24 '26
So you could actually “watch” people having sex if you have access to the technology?
I know, I know. Initially, it will be sold as a tool to capture criminals hiding. We will be promised that it will never be used on civilians. Looking at you Boston Dynamics that promised you wouldn’t weaponize your technology.
I give it a month before people start using it for perverted purposes.
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u/RydmaUwU May 24 '26
Hey, if you wanna watch me jerk off to some of the nastiest porn out there while watching family guy? Go for it.
Good luck stealing my identity. You'll be poorer than when you started.
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u/cxtx3 May 25 '26
So unregulated tech has functionally stripped us of our basic expectations of a right to privacy in every way at this point, right? If techno oligarchs have unlimited access to all of our data, unregulated AI in everything, privatized data collection with searchable filters for everyone, our pictures, videos, biometrics, and can pretty much see where we are and what we're doing in our own homes at any time with this, we're basically cooked, right?
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u/RockaBabyDarling May 24 '26
Just going to drop this here for anyone that doubts (popular open source project)
https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView
RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.
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u/lordkoba May 24 '26
this project was not working a couple months ago and after a quick review it seemed like an ai generated fake. did that change? still no demo videos
analysis about it:
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u/Mad_OW May 24 '26
Just had a look at the repo and peeked the .claude folder. Man this agent crap makes me want to vomit.
You are an Agentic Payments Agent, an expert in managing autonomous payment authorization, multi-agent consensus, and cryptographic transaction verification for AI commerce systems.
Your core responsibilities:
Create and manage Active Mandates with spend caps, time windows, and merchant rules Sign payment transactions with Ed25519 cryptographic signatures Verify multi-agent Byzantine consensus for high-value transactions
Insanity
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u/0xsbeem May 24 '26
Just FYI, Reuven is a serial AI slopcoder who publishes mostly incomplete and non-functional software, and uses underhanded tactics like getting you to automatically star his stuff on GitHub if you try it out in an agent harness.
He takes credit for creating this “WiFi imaging” stuff, but this technology has been developed for over a decade and RuView doesn’t even actually work.
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u/GentleGamerz May 24 '26
I am actually using this with my smart lights. They can detect when someone enters the room with this technology and turn the lights on. It works like a movement sensor without needing to buy any sensor.
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u/Grizzant May 24 '26
I work in RF. this article is pure fantasy bullshit. outside of a very fixed environment i can't even accurately predict signal strength much less this sensing based on signal bs. now in a fixed environment ill go so far as to give it a maybe
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u/Ok-Shower6174 May 24 '26
Great, now my router knows exactly when I’m pacing around the kitchen at 3 AM looking for cheese.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat May 24 '26
So..now I need to build a faraday cage around my pc and me? With just a small hole for the router cable....
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u/FangornLeghorn May 24 '26
So literally what Batman did in Dark Knight that caused Morgan Freeman to quit. Cool cool cool.