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WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed (news.ucsc.edu)

submitted 3 weeks ago by voidx to c/futurology

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well that sucks. No one is closeted now. Your phone will report your arousal to stalkerware data slavers. It would not surprise me if it already did but has never been documented.

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A drone can fly by with a gun and use wifi to tell which room you are in in your home, shoot you through the wall, and see if your heart is still beating. If so, repeat untill dead.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds almost like something the sentinels from the matrix would be able to do with their "electrical signature" detection. I guess it's all killbots in the end.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 3 weeks ago

10 feet in ideal conditions isn't very far

“The signal is very sensitive to the environment, so we have to select the right filters to remove all the unnecessary noise,”

should be trivially easy to shield or make an environment excessively noisy