Private YouTube frontend link.
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Other methods:
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feds with wifi when the steel frames on new houses walks in:
*note: i don’t know how common steel frames are nowadays, but they were pretty common in Australia about a decade ago…
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Did I miss something? I admit my eyes glossed over after awhile of the hosts inability to GTFP, but at no point in that video did it discuss mitigation tactics against this technology.
Just cover your walls in tin foil and don’t forget to wear your tin foil hat, or live in a steel house. The entire video was a “my source is trust me bro”
Outside of the manufacturers website that claims to use some proprietary software to read radio waves to see through walls, I couldn’t find any evidence of this working, how it works or if it’s even slightly close to what was claimed in the video. I suspect it’s much closer to yes, there is movement and it’s located in this general area, rather than giving you a 3d picture of people and objects on the other side of solid objects.
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That dude in the key frame looks like he lost his doughnut, i don’t think he’s looking through your walls unless you leave them laying about
It’s possible low-grade versions of this tech are hitting consumer devices. It appears to be optional - for the moment. I could not discern if it is opt-in or opt-out. I assume the user will be advertised with this feature during setup.
Some users are concerned that this feature is essentially turning their routers into low-resolution cameras with “the ability to see through walls” while others are discussing the privacy implications of letting an ISP monitor data about their household activity and share that information with third parties. Likewise, some users are concerned that this data could be passed along to law enforcement or courts, who would be able to pinpoint exactly when users were at home.
I found this xfinity knowledge article describing the feature in more detail:
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sounds like it’s the “there’s motion in this general area” stuff rather than waow see through walls, by their own admission:
Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiFi-connected devices, so motion from small pets (around 40 pounds or less) can be filtered out while keeping you notified of large movements more likely to be caused by humans.
which makes sense, if you have N number of stationary devices in addition the AP, you can pretty easily detect if Something is moving in the space between them due to the signal strength changes between the devices and some geometry
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Assuming that bad actors (government or otherwise) will be able to remotely enable/disable WiFi Motion, how long until we can expect to see it used for sneak and peeks, home invasions, etcetera?
Wired Ethernet never looked better!