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Greg Chiemingo's avatar

Smart people have the ability to see around corners while RF sensing gives anyone the ability to see through walls. Super important analysis as always but this one hits deeper and way different so thank you for putting it all together so cogently.

KBS Sidhu's avatar

Really scary as well as incredible.

Rakesh Sharma's avatar

Then a wild thought arises in a lunatic mind like mine.....that it can be turned into a devastating weapon too by focusing a beam of high energy like EMP or even an acoustic one with a million Db at UHF for a nano second which sets in motion the disintegration at cellular structures of the victim without him even knowing.....what really hit him.🤔

Cara's avatar

this is what is referred to as directed energy weapons. see: havana syndrome or listen to any of survivors of dews

Hugo's avatar

Really fascinating deep dive. The progression from motion detection to skeleton reconstruction to person identification is wild.

The robotics implications grabbed me most. Home robots are one of the hardest deployment problems right now because navigating a space with people in it requires knowing where everyone is, including rooms you can't see into yet. Cameras and lidar only give you line-of-sight. WiFi sensing gives a robot ambient spatial awareness of the entire home before it even moves. Fundamentally different starting point.

ZaiNar's "foundational layer for physical AI" framing is right. The interesting thing is that this layer is already installed in almost every building on the planet. Most robotics companies are trying to solve indoor positioning from scratch. The answer might already be bouncing off the walls.

Worth flagging though: as WiFi sensing becomes a standard infrastructure layer, access authorization and anti-spoofing become critical. A sensing layer that's everywhere and always on is also an attack surface that's everywhere and always on.

Dan Haydon's avatar

I have read this a few times. Very disconcerting if alignment of interests is not addressed. Also potentially very useful.

Marc Colarelli's avatar

This is only one modality. But the excitement of beneficial or dual-use excuses do not begin to justify the reality. Nefarious does not begin to describe the dehumanizing predations entangled. The greatest most astounding advancements are for malevolent use. This describes only normalizarions. The layers are far more sophisticated and hidden in open source until you know what to search for specifically. And saying "living room" is misleading. It is everywhere including your bed, toilet, and shower and childrens' rooms, vehicles, and even w/out a router, modem, cell phone or smart meter, computer or wearables and other so-called smart devices, it and weaponizations are inescapable. It is not relegated to commercial RF and microwave either. That comes on top of other lesser invasions on every camera and LCD, LED, TV. Even in those mentions it gets far more sophisticated! They do not even need to be turned on. The more sophisticated travesty includes neuroinfomatics, and neuro/bio warfare combined with more developed signals, the virtual sphere and the alterations of the environment.

You can garner the gist on my substack, but be prepared for very difficult disillusionments. The control grid is no benevolant endeavor. Societal devolution is no accident. Surveillance goes far beyond that tracking. It involves each person DNA, and unique neural signatures, nanotech, wetware, BCI, synthetic telepathy, body system and thought reading and manipulations, etc. Other global systems for individual, group, societal, and global impositions like HAARP type arrays are very effective but tech has gone far beyond. The mass of biosensors are something else the citizenry is unaware of.

But all of it has moved into quantum exploits with quantum sensors/dots, computing( simulations made physical, forced predictions, etc ), and astounding weaponizations. Integration is obviously done w/out consent in t h e vie for total, dehumanizing exploitation, trafficking, and control.

Muhammad Sadd Ali's avatar

thanks for sharing❣️