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Re:The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communica... by judge2020 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:15AM (#29907466)
The hypothetical in this is that this suddenly opens the door to RF-based physical sensing, when every attacker that can gain from this is already using it, just via custom equipment.
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Re:The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communica... by pettusftw on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:33AM (#29907751)
I interpret it as eliminating the barrier to entry to those that know how to set up custom equipment. I haven't tried, so I don't know how large that barrier is, but it seems safe to say there's a very low probability a random person could accomplish it now vs when it's default hardware and requires no technical expertise.
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