Daily Archives: 23. März 2025


23.03.2025 - 22:07 [ MDR.de ]

Untersuchung: Wie sicher sind unsere Internet-Router?

(July 1, 2020)

„Fast ein Drittel der Router haben eine Version, die seit neun Jahren nicht mehr mit Updates versorgt wird.“

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AVM macht immerhin einmal im Jahr ein Update. Auch das ist zwar völlig unzureichend, aber immer noch besser als ein neun Jahre altes System. Tatsächlich wären wöchentliche Updates notwendig, die automatisch ausgeführt werden, ohne dass der Nutzer aktiv werden muss. Das wäre ideal, aber es passiert nicht.

23.03.2025 - 19:43 [ ZigZagStatic / Youtube ]

A.I. Generating Dreams & Turning Wi-Fi Routers Into Cameras to See Through Walls

Jul 3, 2023

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aging the latest paper the one that
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happened even after this which is
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already better uses stable diffusion
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uses the thing that you use to make art
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like what should a thing that you use to
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make art have anything to do with
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reading your brain but of course it goes
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further so in this one they said can
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they understand
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um the inner monologue the things you‘re
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saying to yourself in your own mind my
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dude by the way when you dream your
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dream like your visual cortex runs in
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Reverse so your dreams are no longer
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safe
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um but we‘ll try this so they had people
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watch a video and just narrate what was
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going on in the video in their mind so
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there‘s a woman she gets hit in the back
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she falls over this is what the computer
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reconstructed the person thinking
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see a girl looks just like me get hit in
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the back and then she is knocked off
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so our thoughts like are starting to be
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decoded
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yeah just think about what this means
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for authoritarian States for instance
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or if you want to generate images that
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maximally activate your pleasure sensor
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anything else okay but let‘s keep going
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right to really get the sense of the
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combinatorics of this how about can we
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go from Wi-Fi radio signals you know
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sort of like the Wi-Fi routers in your
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house they‘re bouncing off radio signals
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that work sort of like sonar can you go
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from that to where human beings are to
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images so what they did is they had
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um you know a camera looking at a space
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with people in it
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um that‘s sort of like coming in from
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one eye the other eye is the radio
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signals so sonar from the Wi-Fi router
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and they just learn to predict like this
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is where the human beings are then they
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took away the camera so all the AI had
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was the language of radio signals
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bouncing around a room and this is what
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they‘re able to reconstruct
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Real Time 3D pose estimation right so
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suddenly AI has turned every Wi-Fi
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router into a camera that can work in
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the dark specially tuned for tracking
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living beings
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already

23.03.2025 - 19:28 [ Associated Press / Youtube ]

Researchers Use WiFi To See Through Walls

Dec 22, 2015
X-ray vision _ a comic book fantasy for decades _ is becoming a reality in a lab. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls.

23.03.2025 - 18:42 [ Fadel Adib / Youtube ]

Wi-Vi: See through Walls with Wi-Fi signals

Jun 2, 2013
Wi-Vi is a new technology that enables seeing through walls using Wi-Fi signals. The video shows the output of Wi-Vi (blue window) when a person moves around in a room. It can track whether there is a moving human inside the room and how he is moving.

23.03.2025 - 18:35 [ CircleID.com ]

Is Your Router Spying on You?

(January 7, 2025)

What’s probably the most interesting aspect of the sudden focus on WiFi routers is that security experts have been complaining for years that most routers on the market have shoddy security measures and are easy to hack. Perhaps one outcome of the sudden focus on routers will be new government rules demanding better security for all devices.

It’s always a little hard to distinguish politics from reality. Politicians are suddenly lining up to dump on the Chinese, which is easy to do for an issue with no domestic political backlash.

23.03.2025 - 17:50 [ Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) ]

Foreign intelligence services use corporate and personal network routers for cyber espionage

(March 10, 2021)

Supo has noticed an increase in cyber espionage exploiting Finnish infrastructure. The cyber espionage divisions of intelligence services in authoritarian states in particular have exploited dozens of network devices and servers operated by individuals and businesses in Finland by linking them into an infrastructure used for espionage.

This involves routing intelligence service operation traffic through a Finnish network device, so that the attack on the organisation targeted by espionage appears to come from an organisation or a private individual in Finland.

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Supo recommends ensuring that you have taken at least the following steps to improve the security of your router:

– Block external access to the router control panel from the Internet.
– Change the default password so that it is as long as possible and hard to guess. The recommended password length is at least 20 characters.
– Close any open ports on the router that you do not need to use.
– Always update the router firmware to the latest version.

23.03.2025 - 16:54 [ Statista.com ]

Number of internet users worldwide from 2005 to 2024

As of 2024, the estimated number of internet users worldwide was 5.5 billion, up from 5.3 billion in the previous year. This share represents 68 percent of the global population.

23.03.2025 - 16:44 [ planetebook.com ]

1984 – By George Orwell

A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

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From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect. In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.

A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being in-
spected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized. Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected.

23.03.2025 - 16:00 [ Archive.org ]

George Orwell -1984

Eine herrschende Gruppe ist so lange eine herrschende Gruppe, als sie ihre Nachfolger bestimmen kann. Der Partei geht es nicht darum, ewig ihr Blut, sondern sich selbst ewig zu behaupten. Wer die Macht ausübt, ist nicht wichtig, vorausgesetzt, daß die hierarchische Struktur immer dieselbe bleibt.

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Von den Proletariern ist nichts zu befürchten. Sich selbst überlassen, werden sie von Generation zu Generation und von Jahrhundert zu Jahrhundert fortfahren zu arbeiten, Kinder in die Welt zu setzen und zu sterben, nicht nur ohne jeden Antrieb, zu rebellieren, sondern ohne sich auch nur vorstellen zu können, daß die Welt anders sein könnte, als sie ist. Zudem sind sie ein geistloser Brei ohne jede Art von Führung. Sie könnten nur gefährlich werden, wenn die fortschreitende Entwicklung der industriellen Technik es notwendig machen sollte, ihnen eine höhere Erziehung angedeihen zu lassen; aber da die militärische und merkantile Konkurrenz keine Bedeutung mehr hat, ist das Niveau der öffentlichen Erziehung im Sinken begriffen.

Welche Ansichten die Massen vertreten oder nicht vertreten, wird als belanglos angesehen. Man darf ihnen getrost geistige Freiheit einräumen, denn sie haben keinen Geist. Andererseits kann bei einem Parteimitglied auch nicht die kleinste Meinungsabweichung in der unbedeutendsten Frage geduldet werden. Ein Angehöriger der Partei lebt von der Geburt bis zum Tode unter den Augen der Gedankenpolizei. Sogar wenn er allein ist, kann er nie sicher sein, ob er wirklich allein ist. Wo er auch sein mag, ob er schläft oder wacht, arbeitet oder ausruht, in seinem Bad oder in seinem Bett liegt, kann er ohne Warnung und ohne zu wissen, daß er beobachtet wird, beobachtet werden. Nichts, was er tut, ist gleichgültig. Seine Freundschaften, seine Zerstreuungen, sein Benehmen gegen seine Frau und seine Kinder, sein Gesichtsausdruck, wenn er allein ist, die von ihm im Schlaf gemurmelten Worte, sogar die ihm eigentümlichen Bewegungen seines Körpers, alles wird einer peinlich genauen Prüfung unterzogen. Nicht nur jedes wirkliche Vergehen, sondern jede Schrullenhaftigkeit, sie mag noch so unbedeutend sein, jede Gewohnheitsänderung, jede nervöse Absonderlichkeit, die möglicherweise das Symptom eines inneren Kampfes ist, können unweigerlich entdeckt werden.

23.03.2025 - 14:45 [ Diario AS / Youtuibe ]

‚NETANYAHU has CHOSEN DEATH,‘ says relative of hostage in TEL AVIV

The families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas on Saturday (March 22) called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a new hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza.

23.03.2025 - 14:40 [ CNN ]

50,000 killed in Gaza since start of Israel-Hamas war, health ministry says

Authorities in Gaza do not distinguish between civilians and Hamas fighters when reporting casualty figures, but the health ministry and the United Nations say the majority of deaths are women and children. And the true toll could be much higher, with many thousands believed to still be under the rubble.

23.03.2025 - 14:34 [ VOL.at ]

Zehntausende Israelis protestieren gegen Regierung

Zehntausende Menschen haben am Samstag in Tel Aviv und anderen Orten in Israel gegen die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanyahu protestiert. Sie erinnerten an die im Gazastreifen festgehaltenen Geiseln und warfen Netanyahus Regierung vor, mit dem Wiederaufflammen der Kämpfe in dem Küstenstreifen die Geiseln massiv zu gefährden. Die Wut der Demonstranten entlud sich auch über die von der Regierung beschlossene Entlassung des Inlandsgeheimdienstchefs Ronen Bar.

23.03.2025 - 14:29 [ tamrys.bsky.social / Bluesky ]

“If Oct 7 gov‘t doesn‘t comply with Supreme Court ruling, it‘ll become a criminal gov‘t. We won‘t be extras in Bibi‘s theatre of madness.In such a case, the economy must go on strike, we‘ll organize a tax revolt- oppose all forms of refusal-we‘ll not be collaborators in the destruction of democracy”

23.03.2025 - 14:07 [ Orion412 / Bluesky ]

Israelis protest against Bibi in Tel Aviv.

The government of Bibi is not the same as people of Israel.

23.03.2025 - 14:05 [ Reuters ]

Israel anti-government protests flare after dismissal of top security agency chief

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s government to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and resume fighting in Gaza.
Netanyahu said this week he had lost confidence in Ronen Bar, who has led Shin Bet since 2021, and intended to fire him effective April 10, prompting three days of protests.

23.03.2025 - 13:25 [ Neue Zürcher Zeitung ]

Die Generalstaatsanwältin Gali Baharav-Miara ist Netanyahus gefährlichste Kontrahentin – nun will er sie loswerden

Ihre Gegner sagen häufig einfach nur abfällig «die Frau», wenn sie Gali Baharav-Miara meinen. Als könnten sie weder den Namen noch den Beruf der 65-jährigen Generalstaatsanwältin über die Lippen bringen; als wäre ihre Existenz eine einzige Zumutung. Andere beschimpfen sie als Volksfeindin oder drohen ihr mit dem Tod.

23.03.2025 - 13:18 [ Times of Israel ]

Government seeking to operate ‘above the law,’ AG charges ahead of no-confidence vote

“The [no-confidence] motion does not seek to advance trust but rather loyalty to the political echelon, not governability but rather unlimited regime power, as part of a broader process to weaken the judicial branch and deter the entire professional echelon,” charged Baharav Miara, referring to the government’s ongoing contentious judicial overhaul program.

23.03.2025 - 13:15 [ I24news.com ]

Government to begin impeachment of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara

After the expected vote of no confidence on Sunday, the case will be passed on to a selection committee chaired by former Supreme Court president Asher Grunis. This committee could include Foreign Minister Gideon Sa‘ar or Knesset (Israeli parliament) Speaker Amir Ohana as former justice ministers, although this may be contested in the Supreme Court as either personalities are part of the current coalition.

23.03.2025 - 13:03 [ Vatikan ]

Pope Francis calls for an end to ‚heavy bombing in Gaza‘

As he prepares to return to the Vatican after his hospitalization and treatment for bilateral pneumonia, Pope Francis renews his call for peace, urging an end to violence in Gaza and other conflict zones and expresses his gratitude for global efforts towards dialogue, especially in the South Caucasus.

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This Sunday, just before his programmed return to Casa Santa Marta to begin two months of convalescence, Pope Francis prayed for the people of Palestine, writing, “I am saddened by the resumption of heavy Israeli bombing on the Gaza Strip, causing many deaths and injuries. I call for an immediate halt to the weapons; and for the courage to resume dialogue, so that all hostages may be released and a final ceasefire reached”.

23.03.2025 - 12:56 [ Vatikan ]

Welcome home Holy Father!

38 days have gone by since February 14, when Pope Francis left the Vatican to be hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital.

These weeks have been challenging for an 88-year-old patient battling bilateral pneumonia. Medical reports did not downplay the severity of his condition, the crises he endured, or the complexity of his clinical picture.

Yet, throughout this time, he was surrounded by an outpouring of prayers for his recovery: personal prayers, the prayers of communities, rosaries and Eucharistic celebrations. They came not only from Catholics and Christians but also from people of other faiths and those without religious beliefs, who sent him good thoughts and well-wishes. It was for all these people in prayer that today’s brief greeting was wanted and shared.