possible -> prototype -> product -> common -> common and cheap
If Wi-Fi surveillance were to become common and cheap, other methods would be produced to make data harvesting common and cheap to the surveillance state/bigco. The best way to avoid that dystopia is to safeguard it early in the process.
Same thing there. It shouldn't matter if the tech is possible, produced, cheap, and installed in your home.... it's all moot if the act of the surveillance isn't followed through. We need to work towards ways to prevent the acts themselves, as we simply aren't going to be able to prevent the possible sidechannel attacks from being possible. They are always possible.
Wi-Fi access points are often provided by ISPs. ISPs, especially in the US, are not to be trusted; https://security.stackexchange.com/q/71834 is just one example of that.
Nope, remote sensing only requires custom radio firmware on the passive surveillance receiver that is monitoring Wi-Fi reflections from standard consumer routers which are "near" the target.
People have no idea how much debt Police depts (lets not even talk about the military) have racked up playing with high tech toys and paying off compensation every 2 days for people they accidentally harm or kill. So whats funny here as Big Bro gets access to more and more tools the more broke he gets.
And guess what the financiers of this debt will do when it cant be paid off. Raid police pension funds. Thats how financialization of public service works
No free lunch big bro. Have fun with all the "cool toys" while the good times last.
> We show that just by sniffing existing WiFi signals, an adversary can accurately detect and track movements of users inside a building. This is made possible by our new signal model that links together human motion near WiFi transmitters and variance of multipath signal propagation seen by the attacker sniffer outside of the property.
We should be worried about ISPs too. They give themselves access to their customer premises equipment. I had to hack their router to put it into bridge mode and then use another router with software I control to connect.
You’re not exactly wrong in that you should also be worrying about: Boundless Information, Bullrun, Carnivore, DSCNet, Fairview, ICREACH, Magic Lantern, Main Core, Mainway, Media Monitoring Services, Muscular, Mystic, Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, NSA Ant Catalog, PRISM, Room641A, Sentry Eagle, Special Collection Service, Stellar Wind, Tailored Access Operarions, Turbulence, and, X-Keyscore if you’re American. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t also worry about this, just as much.
Then they should be way more worried that their government is using any access to their wifi router at all. Like, you got way bigger things to worry about at that point, right?
There are a million surveillance side-channels that could be used to build profile-able information about what is happening inside a home from the outside. The concern isn't that those things are possible (they always will be) the concern should be that there are authorities who could be (mis)using such avenues and not explicitly being disallowed in the first place.