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This tech scares the hell out of me.
Great if we can make MRI quality imaging eventually available, but being able to monitor where people are in their homes remotely and their health status in our world is fucking dangerous.
Real question: how do you stop this?
I don't use wifi at all in my home but I live in an apartment and all my neighbours obviously do.
How in the hell do I stop this from getting into my home?
Turns out the tinfoil hat gang was right the whole time.
Innocuous radio signals are one thing but if my apartment is inundated with radio waves that can literally be used to track my movements and monitor my heartbeat, being forced to allow this is a perverse and sickening invasion of privacy.
If you think the lack of privacy is bad now, just wait till they use this to target done strikes. We're all in for super fun times.
Yes, 20 people at a government agency are watching you watch Netflix and taking a shit.
the problem is that you don't need 20 people for this kind of thing. you can just kinda passively slurp the data up from every router and throw it into a machine learning model to be used by cops or sold to advertisers. you don't need a human in the loop anywhere and it's essentially impossible to opt out of
Own the network. Run OSS.
That's about it.
"Howdy neighbour. Your wireless modem/router combo is mine now. Thxkbye"
Your neighbors WIFI signals are too weak to matter in this case. Even if they were strong enough, this is a receiver-transmitter setup, so it would still be impossible to do unless you connect to their network. Even then, they’d have to assume you’re the only person present between the transmitter and the receiver.
Presence detection through WIFI was already garbage enough, this one is plain unusable.
Good to know.
The stuff I've read about recently tracking movements using wifi - would this need more powerful radio waves than most people use or no?
You need more power than what regular people use. You would need the signal to go through walls into your home, and then read whatever comes back out through the same walls, so it’s a lot more attenuation than you typically expect.
Wear an aluminum foil vest and a Faraday suit. Burn your computer after reading, I've said too much....
Put the house in a faraday cage?
With 6 ghz wifi you'd need a cage with a size of around 1mm irc.
Copper mesh fabric.
Foil is cheap enough and a good isolator for plenty of things.
So if you don't want someone to measure your heartbeat and to physically know where you are at all times your only option is to cover your entire living area, including the windows, in aluminum foil?
I guess what I'm getting at here is that this situation is deeply, deeply fucked.
In a world where private health care is the norm, yes. It’s scary.
In a world where Public health care is the main provider of health it isn’t.
It has nothing to do with that. This is about privacy and data security.
If we think about the applications of the technology to the benefit of someone’s health I think it’s really cool.
Needless to say it does pose a risk to our privacy and data security if used with an intention to monitor ones health without their consent.
oh yes it still is
What?
Edited for better comprehension. I didn’t have my coffee, sorry
Yeah I'm with you.
"Using this technological advancement to improve health care is good"
"Not in countries where health care is publicly run"
"What" is the correct response here.