Comment My sig (Score 1) 26
lol, my nearly 30 year old signature line is one more step towards coming true.
Submission + - Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi with 99 percent-accuracy (tomshardware.com)
Baron_Yam writes: Security researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have published a paper demonstrating that unencrypted beamforming data broadcast by Wi-Fi devices during normal operation can be used to identify individuals walking through a room with 99.5% accuracy, regardless of whether the individuals are carrying Wi-Fi devices. The tactic leverages the router's beamforming tech to identify individuals with up to 99.5% accuracy, and it works with existing routers, too.
The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.
See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.
The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.
See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.
Comment I have been testing FreeBSD 15.1 on my extra PC (Score 1) 66
I used to run the BSD's all the time in the old days and use them for servers, firewalls, but for the last decade or more its been Linux only for me.
I have been running a KDE desktop lately using FreeBSD 15.1 Beta for a few weeks on my extra PC and using it for some stuff, and its been surprisingly nice, even with Wayland.
And the "boot environments" stuff with ZFS snapshots, makes it very nice and easy to have automatic bootable snapshots, and provides pretty much the same functionality as btrfs+snapper+grub.
My main daily driver desktop PC is Linux, but so far it seems to me that if you don't need gaming, FreeBSD is not a bad desktop OS at all.
I have been running a KDE desktop lately using FreeBSD 15.1 Beta for a few weeks on my extra PC and using it for some stuff, and its been surprisingly nice, even with Wayland.
And the "boot environments" stuff with ZFS snapshots, makes it very nice and easy to have automatic bootable snapshots, and provides pretty much the same functionality as btrfs+snapper+grub.
My main daily driver desktop PC is Linux, but so far it seems to me that if you don't need gaming, FreeBSD is not a bad desktop OS at all.
Comment Place your bets....state actor or AI slop? (Score 4, Interesting) 109
Who wants to bet... either a state actor asked them to do this so they could take advantage of it or was it AI slop doing its usual quality work?
Comment Behind the curtains (Score 1) 94
$100 it was all done by a couple guys behind the curtains with joysticks like every "futuristic robot" demo.
Comment Shame... (Score 1) 17
That is a shame.
USENIX and LISA were some of the best conferences I ever attended......
USENIX and LISA were some of the best conferences I ever attended......
Comment BACK to 10 (Score 1) 134
I am advising my family members who refuse to use Linux to GO BACK TO Windows 10, and keep using it even after 2025.
Comment Re:Does it Identify Corporate surveillance as well (Score 2) 56
Yep, my company installed cameras at every parking lot entrance, exit which record every license plate that enters/exits or drives by our company location.
The system is provided by a vendor, which shares data with law enforcement.
This is becoming more and more common. Soon, every business in the country will have cameras recording license plates as you drive by them and all stored in the cloud with the data being given to the government.
The system is provided by a vendor, which shares data with law enforcement.
This is becoming more and more common. Soon, every business in the country will have cameras recording license plates as you drive by them and all stored in the cloud with the data being given to the government.
Comment White House Behind Back To Work (Score -1, Troll) 240
I read on an investment site, that the Biden White House is behind most of the current push for "back to office" in large corporations, and that administration officials have spoken with most major corporations leadership trying to get them to go back to the office. None of this is about bullshet like collaboration, or productivity. Its all about politics and wall street banking investments.
Comment This whole post is a gaslight (Score 1) 68
This whole article is just a gaslight. It must have been written by an office space real estate investor.
Comment Money laundering IS GOOD, not bad (Score 3, Insightful) 54
EVERYONE should be laundering their money. The government has no legitimate claim to know everything about you, your finances and what you do.
Comment Reddit is done (Score 2) 131
Reddit is done.
It went from stinking, to pure shit. The quality of content has gone through the floor and most of the useful people have left the site to never come back.
It went from stinking, to pure shit. The quality of content has gone through the floor and most of the useful people have left the site to never come back.
Comment So....what you are saying (Score 1, Insightful) 64
SO...what you are saying is the climate changes wildly not because of humans?
Comment Pirate Bay still wins (Score 2) 16
And the selection on Pirate Bay is still 100x better.
Comment Re: Free Layoffs (Score 2) 238
Corporations don't care. It's all about the next quarterly report. Long term consequences like that don't enter into the thinking at all.
