wifi
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Motion Sensing Wi-Fi Is A Limited But Fascinating Peek At The Future Of The Smart Home
In 2013, researchers at MIT demonstrated how the Wi-Fi signals that fill every corner of your home with high-speed internet could also be used to detect the movements of pets and people—even through walls. Six years later, Linksys has introduced similar functionality on its tri-band mesh routers, and while the technology is clearly still in…
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New Super-Secure Wi-Fi Is Actually Full Of Security Holes
When the Wi-Fi Alliance released its next-generation WPA3 wifi security protocol last January, it was touted as being nigh impossible to crack. That made it a serious upgrade over WPA2, the current protocol used by modern wifi networks—including the one you’re probably reading this on. Except, researchers on Wednesday published findingS that show WPA3 actually…
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Why You’ll Still Need Wifi When 5G Is Everywhere, According To The Wi-Fi Alliance
Good news for fans of getting stuff fast — all of us, then— because a new version of wifi is just around the corner. Wi-Fi 6 is going to be better than current wifi in every regard, and the body behind it just published a paper extolling its virtues, emphasising that, yes, we will still…
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Teen Burglar Breaks Into Home, Asks Sleeping Couple For Wi-Fi: Police
Police say a couple in their 60s woke up in their Palo Alto, California bedroom around midnight last Saturday to find someone looming above them wearing a mask, or possibly a black T-shirt covering their face. The intruder asked for their Wi-Fi password.