Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by EGreg on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:47AM
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How would a person be able to avoid this?
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Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by AlphaWeaver on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:50AM
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That's one scary implication: they can't.
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by buddapalm on Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:26PM
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I'd imagine a simple device that broadcasts noise or fake signals would be enough to throw it off. Lots of principles used in speed trap jammers could be used.
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by nsns on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:34AM
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Unless, of course, they are aware of it and try to subvert it by consciously modifying "their body shape characteristics and motion patterns".
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by EGreg on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:51AM
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No seriously. Maybe wear some kinda suit?
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by givinguflac on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:35AM
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Run Ethernet throughout your home and hardwire 100% of everything. Disable all wireless radios in your house. That will stop your own gear from being used like this, but unless you turn your home into a faraday cage someone could probably blast your home with 2.4GHz externally to achieve similar results. If as you mention, perhaps you had some kind of suit that is completely absorbent to wireless spectrum, though that in itself could be used as an identifier most likely.
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by daurnimator on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:17PM
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You can buy coating for your windows that blocks RF.
e.g. http://www.scottishwindowtinting.com/residential-window-film...
Can usually get in via custom order from anywhere that does window tinting.
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by EGreg on Sunday August 28, 2016 @12:12PM
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What I meant was that the suit would change your "wifi fingerprint", not that it would be absorbent.
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by 13of40 on Sunday August 28, 2016 @12:02PM
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Turn the wifi hotspot on on your phone and blind it. It probably won't work so well if the background wifi signals keep moving around.
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by jevyjevjevs on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:18PM
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Since this uses standard WiFi, if you don't have a WiFi network, you're good!
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by sroussey on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:33AM
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Of metal, sure.
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by pibefision on Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:03PM
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put some cold water and ice in the bathtube and wait inside it until the spiders left the building... :) (important link to understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901lYbPmqu4)
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by jevyjevjevs on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:17PM
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VP Product at aerial.ai (using similar strategies as this paper) here. A few major caveats to make this work:
a) There needs to be enough traffic happening on the network to have the resolution needed to differentiate between people. b) The device needs to be able to see the traffic. This won't protect you from a device in the home that has this technology, but it will from people standing outside of the home (as the signal attenuates a lot outside of the home)
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by giosch on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:33AM
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Probably with a device that transmit in the same frequency of the WiFi network, just ending up distubing the signal
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by vasili111 on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:09AM
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Very simple. Just use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Re:FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
by xkcd-sucks on Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:11PM
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Run a cheap switched mode power supply in their pocket?