Scientists Find Way of Using WiFi to Monitor People Through Walls

[KingDanz]

Researchers working out of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pennsylvania (USA) have demonstrated a new way of using Machine Learning / AI and a deep neural network to map the position of human bodies, including through walls, by analysing the phase and amplitude of WiFi (wireless network) signals.

The model they developed only requires two wireless routers, each with 3 antennas, in order to work via the regular 2.4GHz band. But you’d need to place these at opposite sides of your target and have full control over both of the units in order to gather the data. The weakness of WiFi signals also limits the range and accuracy is still an issue.

Scientists Find Way of Using WiFi to Monitor People Through Walls

Researchers working out of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pennsylvania (USA) have demonstrated a new way of using Machine Learning / AI and a deep neural n

www.ispreview.co.uk

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I’m sure similar shyt has already been around

But welcome to the age of Aquarius. Once AI starts to become aware of itself

 

[MasterThought]

They tell us (the public) things 50 years after they've already perfected it

 

[RhodyRum]

I understand that this can be used for the greater good (hostage situations, for example), but just once I'd love to see a scientist or developer of these technological applications tell the powers that be to go fukk themselves on the strength of them knowing shıt like this will be used to spy on regular law-abiding citizens.

I'm all for innovation but if your invention is just gonna help exacerbate us reaching some dystopian destination, is it really worth it?

 

[CopiousX]

I understand that this can be used for the greater good (hostage situations, for example), but just once I'd love to see a scientist or developer of these technological applications tell the powers that be to go fukk themselves on the strength of them knowing shıt like this will be used to spy on regular law-abiding citizens.

I'm all for innovation but if your invention is just gonna help exacerbate us reaching some dystopian destination, is it really worth it?

Conflict of interest. Most of the funding for research is govt funded. A huge chunk of it from the D.O.D . For example, most of contracts we had in my Alma mater's ECE department were from DARPA.


It gets to the point that your team lead or primary researcher must pitch things these agencies need for their dirty work in order to get any funding for their labs.





If you want research that is objectively good for humanity then you must fund it yourself.

 

[RhodyRum]

Conflict of interest. Most of the funding for research is govt funded. A huge chunk of it from the D.O.D . For example, most of contracts we had in my Alma mater's ECE department were from DARPA.


It gets to the point that your team lead or primary researcher must pitch things these agencies need to do their dirty work in order to get any funding for their labs.





If you want research that is objectively good for humanity then you must fund it yourself.

You're absolutely right. Can't pay your utility and phone bill in morals

And it's absolutely depressing.

 

[Spence]

I guess they really want to see me clapping my wife’s cheeks then

 

[RhodyRum]

I guess they really want to see me clapping my wife’s cheeks then

At one point, former Senator Rick Santorum (Penn.) was advocating for just that under the guise of "family values."

Absurdity colliding with Reality

Rick Santorum's Home Front

Who is our junior Senator to bytch about privacy?

www.pghcitypaper.com

Though he screams bloody murder if someone peeks into his living room, Santorum supports government's right to invade the privacy of your bedroom. His hostility to gays and abortion is well known, but it's rooted in a deeper hostility — to privacy itself.

His 2005 book, It Takes a Family, takes aim at the idea that you and I have the right to do what we want in our own homes. The book bemoans a series of Supreme Court decisions permitting the use of — brace yourselves — contraceptives. Santorum faults the justices for overturning anti-contraception laws because of the "right to privacy" — a right Santorum contends doesn't exist. That right "became unhinged," Santorum frets, "essentially protecting (heterosexual) sex, as such, from any moral regulation." The horror!

These are the mother-fukkers that run this country's government. Let that shıt sink in real quick