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Your Wi-Fi router could spy exactly where you are in a room

submitted by knightwarrior41 to technology 2.3 yearsJan 19, 2023 19:39:25 ago (+25/-0)     (www.techradar.com)

https://www.techradar.com/news/your-wi-fi-router-could-spot-exactly-where-you-are-in-a-room

Your humble Wi-Fi router(opens in new tab) signal could be used to track your movements around a room, bat style, a new report has claimed.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently published a report in which they detailed an experiment using ordinary off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers to detect people’s locations, as well as their poses, in a room.


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It produces scatter waves which will block anyone spying on you using wifi/cell tower wave technology to see thru your walls. They get an image based on the wifi and cell tower waves bouncing off every surface in your living space. The flyback driver will produce scatter waves which will white out the area around the driver. The more amps, the bigger the white-out field. They are a bit dangerous, though, and you have to build it yourself. Now that you have asked about infra, I am not sure if it would work. I will have to keep it in mind for further research. If you find out whether it works or not, let me know and I will do the same.