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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Zephorah@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Pretty sure this is old news? It's basically sonar, which The Dark Knight predicted in the film.

Edit: a word

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The statement from the article was the unlike previously, they used current consumer equipment, and could uniquely identify a specific person. I believe previous versions could just identify that there was "A" person. I don’t know that all that is true, but it is what the article says, and my vague memories line up.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Like a submarine.

[–] Yosmonkol@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The first time I heard about this was in 2013 and, in 2019, I had a local government management class where wifi sensing in busy downtown areas and stadiums was discussed as a plus side to municipal wifi installations. In the latter case it was described as being available not too far in the future.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sensing is officially going to be part of 6G, might not be deployed everywhere, but it's going to be in the standard.

[–] Yosmonkol@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds like the higher frequency 6G would have better resolution (potentially sub mm?) than Wifi 7's ~5cm. Article about 6G ISAC.