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[-] iie@hexbear.net 25 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 13 points 14 hours ago

several years ago they got that guy in dallas who was icing pigs with a bomb on a glorified RC car, does that count?

[-] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 12 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

[-] miz@hexbear.net 20 points 19 hours ago

what does RSS stand for here

[-] context@hexbear.net 27 points 18 hours ago
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[-] context@hexbear.net 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

here's a paper from 2013 i found about how this works

https://span.ece.utah.edu/uploads/jstsp-patwari_r2_f.pdf

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 17 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago

brb connecting an rng to my pacemaker before the next action

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 26 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 12 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

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 5 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.

[-] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 7 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 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.

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

What you could do is just use a MOFI router from the company that doesnt use wireless and just connect it to a normal router via an ethernet cable i guess. You can always just make your own subnet no matter what connection type you have, and simply route all internet traffic into the other network from that subnet.

But if you can find a way to just get your own MOFI router that'd be better. I don't know much about that stuff so couldn't say.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 24 points 22 hours ago

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?

[-] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 14 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

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 25 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] Imnecomrade@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

They need to step away from the lathe.

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

We’re so cooked man

[-] Eris235@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

thanks for the blanking. Seeing this go around elsewhere, wild how its still cool to openly shit on ND people

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

dunno why it's hard to use tinfoil hat wearers, it's a symbol for this exact shit :(

meow-hug

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.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 10 points 22 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"

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

Yeah man, tell me more about CHYNA being an Orwellian police state and shit.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

2 meters error (assuming it means radius of 2 meters) is like my whole living room lol. This kind of sounds like “well the research went nowhere but the thesis to be submitted”

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago

good enough for hellfire missile tho. Or pinpointing a room in a building

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

“With only 6 wireless nodes we can make an algorithm to determine a napping person is in or near the foot of their bed” is so funny.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if i ~~read~~ skimmed through correctly, nodes in that case are basically wireless devices (so iot perverts + phones/watches/audio/tv).

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 11 points 20 hours ago

so the opsec here doesn't really change much. prefer wired whenever possible and don't fill your house with iot. how useful is this method if the person they want to track only has two broadcasters (their router and their phone)?

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Whether they're in their house or not is all that's really needed for any monitoring purposes I can think of.

Of course, if you've compromised their 6 damn wireless nodes, you also know that they're home when their phone switches to wifi.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 8 points 18 hours ago

there's way easier ways to know if someone is home. stakeouts, fake pizza delivery, tracking your car

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 29 points 23 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

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

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

[-] fox@hexbear.net 16 points 23 hours ago

You already get put on a watchlist for downloading Linux

[-] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 19 hours ago

Is this confirmed?

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 11 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

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Our best bet at stopping this is getting ankle bracelet companies to go to war to protect their market share.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

becoming multiple cat person to own the isp watchers

[-] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 17 points 23 hours ago

Comrades, we must practice vigilant opsec

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

No more wifi, only wired connections

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