The world we live in today comes with a inumerate and increasing amount of technologies that allow for unfettered electronic surveillance. Traditionally, we think of cell phone or internet provider records, warrants or forfeiture of rights to unlock electronic devices like phones and computers.
As we grow increasingly aware that our privacy is affected at scale by large companies, the corporate powers to empower governments' surveillance dragnets and techniques are a second thought to most consumers. However, the very means that cyber criminals, governments, and just about anyone can reach into our private lives and most intimate moments are in the hands of companies whom millions to billions of people rely on daily.
It is always after the fact that we discover how poor the controls and processes are, and the law a step behind the vulnerabilites and exploits inherit in not only a poor engineering and security model, but one that is continually compromised by agreements, laws, and business politics.
In today's world, a variety of technologies can be weaponized as a radical means of surveillance, increasingly nightmarish, for example Xfinity's WiFi Motion can track movement and in a 2014 Paper, MIT RF-Capture can use nearby frequencies close to WiFi which employ a technique called time of flight with radio waves to detect depth and shape of people, an eerily shocking discovery which is not widely discussed in terms of its implications for privacy and anti-surveillance measures.
The world today knows nothing about a radio wave, nothing about a circut, assembly, encryption or the complex mahcinations and interplay of radios, computers or servers. Every day we use WiFi, LTE/5G, our phones and computers, but what is less of a topic of the conversation in the tech world are the complex interplay of those technologies. The contemporay focus has overly been on encrpytion, which is a great topic to start, but does not cover the breadth of daily software, millions of bad forms left to exposure, lots of dark patterns in software and hardware that when they fail or they are exploited and leave millions of people exposed and potentially dozens to thousands in aggressively targeted by cyber criminals and/or governments.
This repo is a work in progress to tackle and educate of those very fundamental flaws in our world, but in a frame from personal experience.