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Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by bignose@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The Sapienza computer scientists say Wi-Fi signals offer superior surveillance potential compared to cameras because they're not affected by light conditions, can penetrate walls and other obstacles, and they're more privacy-preserving than visual images.

[…] The Rome-based researchers who proposed WhoFi claim their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent of the time when the deep neural network uses the transformer encoding architecture.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know, this, and the using wifi to see through walls stuff to me just immediately seemed to fall into "don't research this, it can only be used for evil".

I don't get why we bother studying these types of things.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We study it because EVERYTHING can be used for good or evil.

If we'd stopped researching anything that could be used for evil we'd never have gotten into the stone age

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, like, why learn how to split the atom if all we can do is splode stuff. It's not like we can cure cancer or power things without emitting planet killing gasses or anything.

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait… so the guys with tinfoil hats were on to something?

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except that the tinfoil hats don't work

[–] 2910000@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe wearing a different tinfoil hat every day would mess up a person's "fingerprint"

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

you might be onto something.

take a mylar square and place it somewhere random on your body every day.

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let me know when I can selfhost LibreFi Security on my router and use it for myself. Sounds great for private home use.

[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ALERT ALERT ALERT

Sorry dude I forgot to add your bio signature to my WiFi router.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Stilsuits: get it for the unbearable heat as we turn the Earth into a desert, now with wifi blocking!

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