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Very cool!

Also this is mindblowing, logging keystrokes from a standard keyboard using wifi.

"we show for the first time that WiFi signals can also be exploited to recognize keystrokes. The intuition is that while typing a certain key, the hands and fingers of a user move in a unique formation and direction and thus generate a unique pattern in the time-series of Channel State Information (CSI) values"

https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/papers/p90-aliA.pdf

Edit: I wonder as an aside how precisely you could potentially use the accelerometer etc. for dead-reckoning.




Co-author here :) In response to dead-reckoning: https://medium.com/@gregorymfoster/how-any-app-could-track-t...


Awesome thanks a lot, I'd not seen that! It looks very in-depth (which is what I wanted :), I'll have to have a good look through it.

Edit: Wow, I'm just skimming it at the moment, I'd never heard of 'Magnetic Particle Filtering' before, that is really amazing!

Also semi-related, I just found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_detector. Apparently they degauss submarines precisely to avoid that :)


Thanks!




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