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strufe
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privacy prof at KIT and CeTI/TU Dresden
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Secuso Research @secuso.aifb.kit.edu · 5h
Congratulations @ps@social.kit.edu fir having your research mentioned in the ACM Tech News 🥳👏 Such a nice surprise to read about KIT research this morning!
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Screenshot of a news article that reads: Beware of Radio Network Surveillance Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology demonstrated a method for identifying individuals using standard Wi-Fi devices. They found Wi-Fi devices communicating with each other in a person's surroundings produce patterns based on radio waves that are similar to images captured by cameras. The individual does not need to have a Wi-Fi device in their possession, and special hardware is not needed to identify anyone in range of a wireless local area network.
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 3h
Thanks for sharing! :-)
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 9h
Funny cause it's true 😬
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 11h
ACM is about to make the paper available online, but we've created an alternative link, here: publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000185756
Sorry for the inconvenience!
BFId: Identity Inference Attacks Utilizing Beamforming Feedback Information
Beamforming, as introduced in WiFi 5, requires clients to broadcast observations of their channel characteristics. This introduces a new information source for
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 1d
Very unusual but probably the best conference keynote we ever had the pleasure of attending: David Basin explaining how security and privacy by design may actually work with the help of formal logic.
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 3d
Now have it quickly vibe code and run the experiment to finally finish the eval, discussion, and conclusion sections, that should be easy! ;-p
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 3d
Paper available at: doi.org/10.1145/3719...
KIT press release: www.kit.edu/kit/english/...

💪 @kastel-labs.bsky.social and CeTI at work 💪
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 3d
Key impact: Any passive eavesdropper can turn any modern WLAN into a person-identification system without special hardware or user interaction.

This research highlights urgent privacy risks as WiFi sensing becomes standardized. We're calling for protective measures in upcoming WiFi standards.
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 3d
"BFId: Identity Inference Attacks Utilizing Beamforming Feedback Information" reveals how this standard WiFi 5+ feature creates an invisible surveillance vulnerability in everyday networks.
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 3d
🎉 Happy to share that Julian presents our paper showing how beamforming feedback information - openly broadcast by WiFi devices and accessible to any passive network sniffer - can identify individuals with near-perfect accuracy, even those who don't carry any devices, at ACM CCS in Taipei this week!
Title of our paper at CCS 2025, demonstrating an attack using beamforming feedback information to identify individuals walking through a WLAN
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 3d
Spirit animal, electronic version.
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vxo @vxo.bsky.social · 4d
#No
The screen on a gasoline pump asking "Would you like to" with the only selection being "NO"
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 6d
Where in Belgium was this photo taken!? 🤔
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CCC @ccc.de · 6d
Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for MS’s own purposes. MS tried to shift all responsibility to comply with privacy laws onto schools noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.
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Thomas Griesbaum @tencate.bsky.social · 8d
Interessant auch dieser Thread bsky.app/profile/sour...
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) @kit.edu · 8d
#WLAN als „Spion“: Überwachungsfalle in Funknetzwerken. Neue Technik erkennt Personen ohne eigenes WLAN-Gerät anhand von Signalen in Funknetzwerken. Forschende @kastel-labs.bsky.social warnen vor Risiken für die #Privatsphäre und fordern Schutzmaßnahmen.
www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2025_... 📸 smarterpix
Symbolbild: Person hält Smartphone in der Hand, darüber grafische Symbole für WLAN und Router
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 8d
We show how mere sniffing of bfi reports (Wi-Fi 5 and above) suffices to identify individuals strolling through wlan-served environments. Check it out, also at ACM CCS next week!
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) @kit.edu · 8d
#WLAN als „Spion“: Überwachungsfalle in Funknetzwerken. Neue Technik erkennt Personen ohne eigenes WLAN-Gerät anhand von Signalen in Funknetzwerken. Forschende @kastel-labs.bsky.social warnen vor Risiken für die #Privatsphäre und fordern Schutzmaßnahmen.
www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2025_... 📸 smarterpix
Symbolbild: Person hält Smartphone in der Hand, darüber grafische Symbole für WLAN und Router
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Plattform Privatheit @plattformprivat.bsky.social · 8d
Chatkontrolle: Immer mehr Warnungen vor dem Aufweichen sicherer Verschlüsselung | heise online www.heise.de/news/Chatkon...
Chatkontrolle: Immer mehr Warnungen vor dem Aufweichen sicherer Verschlüsselung
Nach Bürgerrechtsorganisationen machen IT-Verbände, der Kinderschutzbund und Pressevereinigungen gegen die geplante Durchleuchtung privater Kommunikation mobil.
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Secuso Research @secuso.aifb.kit.edu · 8d
#SECUSO unterstützt Initiativen gegen #Chatkontrolle
Am 14. Oktober entscheidet der Rat der EU über einen Entwurf zur Kontrolle von privaten Chats, der es erlauben würde, Nachrichten auf den Endgeräten vor und nach der Verschlüsselung zu prüfen.
ℹ️ gi.de/meldung/chat...
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Chatkontrolle: GI lehnt Verordnungsentwurf der EU ab
Unter der dänischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft wird derzeit über einen neuen Kompromissentwurf zur Chatkontrolle verhandelt, über den der Rat am 14. Oktober 2025 entscheiden soll. Der Entwurf würde eine a...
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Thomas Stadler @rastadler.bsky.social · 12d
Die anlasslose Chatkontrolle ist mit dem Telekommunikationsgeheimnis wie es das GG vorsieht, unvereinbar. Das ist ein Schritt in Richtung des totalitären Staates. netzpolitik.org/2025/fragen-...
Fragen und Antworten: Warum ist Chatkontrolle so gefährlich für uns alle?
Die Chatkontrolle gilt weithin als Ende der verschlüsselten und privaten Kommunikation, also als Gefahr für die Demokratie und technisches Sicherheitsrisiko für die digitale Welt. Wir erklären und kom...
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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 17d
This isn't even funny in any funny way. I wonder at what stage someone will start fighting back, you're on a straight path to authoritarianism, and fast.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_T...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 17d
"AfD is not just Germany’s problem, Vox is not just Spain’s, and MAGA is not just America’s. They are expressions of a single political current, localised for context but feeding into the same transnational authoritarian project." www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
The far right is acting as one party. When will we? | Euractiv
Liberal institutions treat each surge of populism as a domestic challenge to be managed within national elections or courts. Meanwhile the far right amplifies each other’s victories, recycles each oth...
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aurelsec @aurelsec.bsky.social · 17d
Tomorrow at 6:30 PM the EU Green Parliament group holds a webinar on #ChatControl
act.greens-efa.eu/chatcontrol
Stop Chat Control: Why scanning all our private messages is a very bad idea
🔴 Webinar - Tue 30 Sep 18.30h CEST
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 19d
"To ensure sovereignty, OpenAI for Germany will be supported by SAP’s subsidiary Delos Cloud, running on Microsoft Azure technology." - that is not how any of this works, Germany! openai.com/global-affai...
SAP and OpenAI partner to launch sovereign ‘OpenAI for Germany’
SAP and OpenAI launch OpenAI for Germany, a 2026 partnership to bring secure, sovereign AI to Germany’s public sector, enabling safe, efficient public services.
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Patrick Breitenbach @patrickbreitenbach.de · 21d
Made my day.
Söder ist nun auch international ne Witzwurst.
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Sabine Hochfeld-Pauli @pauline1895.bsky.social · 21d
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KASTEL Security Research Labs @kastel-labs.bsky.social · 21d
Transatlantic Exchange on Election Security: U.S. Delegation Visits KASTEL Security Research Labs
On September 19, a delegation of U.S. Secretaries of State from 12 states visited KASTEL Security Research Labs, accompanied by the Aspen Institute Germany. Read more: kastel-labs.de/news/
KASTEL SRL voting maschine Tobias Hilt Felix Dörre
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22d
It is Wednesday morning and I need $15,000 to fall from the sky so that a group of extremely high-risk activists can continue to get anti-doxxing protection and data-deletion services.

I am not enjoying this week. Zero stars on WeekAdvisor.
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