dillrepair t1_iv7o8gq wrote
Okay so anyone hacked into my router (government etc) can use the router to do the exact same thing right?
ecksate t1_iv7s54o wrote
Anyone who can receive the signal from your router can see through the walls. Your router doesn't know where you are in your house.
The article probably answers your questions if you care to click it.
Orcwin t1_iv86lvy wrote
No. It will be able to see which devices are connected, not where in the house those devices are. The concept from the article has multiple radios, and can therefore do triangulation of the received signals.
Whatdafuqisgoingon t1_iv8ry3x wrote
Using the drones WiFi to call out to your devices and their responses include distance. all a drone would need to do is do fly the perimeter of your house making multiple callouts and then it would be able to make a fairly accurate guess where everything is based on all the TOF calls.
Your router is capable of the same thing but it doesn't tend to move. Wifi triangulation happens in lots of places. Casinos and even in big box public stores like Walmart and Target. They aren't using drones to track you, instead use their multiple antenna's to see which area's of the store you visit.
Emu1981 t1_iv9bde6 wrote
>The concept from the article has multiple radios, and can therefore do triangulation of the received signals.
It depends on how accurate of a fix you want. I have a old router that could do fairly accurate Wi-Fi triangulation but the accuracy decreased as the RF clutter increased (e.g. walls between the router and the device).
slyiscoming t1_iv8sq7u wrote
It's not just the router. It's everything on wifi.
deeperest t1_ivbfair wrote
No he's saying his router can already "see" everything going on in his house (from a wifi standpoint) so if you get access to it, you get access to the same information.
And the answer is, not quite, as you can't get multiple points of measurement of directional signals from a router in a single spot.
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