• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    288 days 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 [he/him]OP
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      408 days ago

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

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        178 days ago

        It requires a lot of nodes! Like if you’re placing 6 wifi end points in every room that’s pretty bad opsec even without this.

        • tocopherol [any]
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          198 days ago

          I have a smart light that interacts with wifi, add one more and you could use them to triangulate at least a rough position possibly. Enough to tell if someone is in the house at least and maybe an estimate of how many people. Sci-fi dystopia shit really if it is truly possible.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      288 days 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 [he/him]OP
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        8 days ago

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

        • Carl [he/him]
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          128 days 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)?

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        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.