{"id":23469,"date":"2016-08-25T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23469"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:18:06","slug":"the-atlantic-all-the-ways-your-wi-fi-router-can-spy-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23469","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic: All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/08\/wi-fi-surveillance\/497132\/\">All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You<\/a> by Kevah Waddell: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It can even be trained to read your lips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>City dwellers spend nearly every moment of every day awash in wi-fi signals. Homes, streets, businesses, and office buildings are constantly blasting wireless signals every which way for the benefit of nearby phones, tablets, laptops, wearables, and other connected paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>When those devices connect to a router, they send requests for information\u2014a weather forecast, the latest sports scores, a news article\u2014and, in turn, receive that data, all over the air. As it communicates with the devices, the router is also gathering information about how its signals are traveling through the air, and whether they\u2019re being disrupted by obstacles or interference. With that data, the router can make small adjustments to communicate more reliably with the devices it\u2019s connected to.<\/p>\n<p>But it can also be used to monitor humans\u2014and in surprisingly detailed ways.<\/p>\n<p>As people move through a space with a wi-fi signal, their bodies affect it, absorbing some waves and reflecting others in various directions. By analyzing the exact ways that a wi-fi signal is altered when a human moves through it, researchers can \u201csee\u201d what someone writes with their finger in the air, identify a particular person by the way that they walk, and even read a person\u2019s lips with startling accuracy\u2014in some cases even if a router isn\u2019t in the same room as the person performing the actions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You by Kevah Waddell: It can even be trained to read your lips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23471,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469\/revisions\/23471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}