It’s possible to use WiFi signals to identify individuals and to determine who is carrying a weapon. This opens all sorts of questions in my mind.
- Will there be a point where people will engage in electronic warfare against computers using WiFi to spy on you? Jamming? Spoofing?
- How will this new technology be used?
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Joe Blow · October 19, 2026 at 10:15 am
Oh, they can do more than that!
Forgive me if I mistake a few of the details. I believe it was Spectrum cable (or a researcher working w/ or on Spectrum WiFi’s…), they can tell how many people are in the room, where in the room, when they move about the room, and pretty much ‘see through walls’ (was the headline) by measuring signal strength changes. So the old-meme of the repair van sitting outside your house w/ the FBI inside? They can see through the walls of your house by measuring the strength of your signal from outside the walls of your house.
The digital panopticon is being rapidly assembled in real-time…
r · October 19, 2026 at 3:48 pm
Generally, I do not have a problem with others knowing my whereabouts.
The problem is what they plan to do with that information, including connecting my various movements to infer intent on my part. That inference may not necessarily be unlawful on my part, but they may deem it as such.
Too, what do ya reckon that, in the event of some future action against your person, that they do not point to past movements by you to solidify their case against you?
r · October 19, 2026 at 3:38 pm
Everything has an RF signature. Or, as shown here, the way an object interrupts radiation can be used to identify the presence of that object.
This has been demonstrated since at least the early 1980s. The nefarious part is the application of the technology which is the subject here.
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