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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by Zephorah@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[โ€“] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Also, I tried plugging the patch cable directly into my own wifi router and nothing.

The router would need to be explicitly configured to connect to your account on the network, which would require certain information provided by the ISP, which it sounds like they weren't going to provide.

[โ€“] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

All inferred from the response I got from the tech.