Comment by benob

3 years ago

From the abstract: "This paves the way for low-cost, broadly accessible, and privacy-preserving algorithms for human sensing."

How much do we have to wait for the follow up paper: "Human identification through wifi signals" and then the patent for "Wifi as an identity tracking source for advertisement in public spaces"

Technology advances make me sad those days...

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transpute  3 years ago

> How much do we have to wait for the follow up paper

Early work from ~2010, https://dhalperi.github.io/linux-80211n-csitool/ & https://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/sFFT/soda_paper.pdf & https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/103715

1000+ papers, add your surveillance keyword and 'Search within citing articles': https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4354757827101869878

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Katabi

> In 2012, her work on Sparse Fourier Transforms was chosen as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year by Technology Review ... In 2014, on the celebration of Project Mac's 50th anniversary, her work on X-ray vision was chosen as one of the "50 ways that MIT has transformed computer science."

Sample paper topic keywords, http://web.archive.org/web/20210620035520/http://dhalperi.gi...

  human-to-human interaction recognition
  device-free human activity recognition
  occupant activity recognition in smart offices
  emotion sensing via wireless channel data
  CSI learning for gait biometric sensing
  sleep monitoring from afar 
  human breath status via commodity wifi
  device-free crowd sensing

danuker  3 years ago

> Human identification through wifi signals

It is already easy to track anyone who owns a smartphone.

Probe requests broadcast the MAC address: https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/wi-fi-is-broken-3f6054210f...

  • app4soft  3 years ago

    > Probe requests broadcast the MAC address: https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/wi-fi-is-broken-3f6054210f...

    Summary is good:

    > Wi-Fi is fucked, everything is broken, Donald J. Trump is president, and the earth is dying. Ok, taking a step back, you might be wondering what you can do to protect yourself. The solution is not without flaws; turn your Wi-Fi off when you aren’t connected to a known network. Doing so will prevent your device from leaking your network names and device fingerprint to the open world. The solution is awkward, easy to forget, and sub-par. But its what we’ve got.