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How would a person be able to avoid this?

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That's one scary implication: they can't.

No seriously. Maybe wear some kinda suit?

Of metal, sure.

Run Ethernet throughout your home and hardwire 100% of everything. Disable all wireless radios in your house. That will stop your own gear from being used like this, but unless you turn your home into a faraday cage someone could probably blast your home with 2.4GHz externally to achieve similar results. If as you mention, perhaps you had some kind of suit that is completely absorbent to wireless spectrum, though that in itself could be used as an identifier most likely.

What I meant was that the suit would change your "wifi fingerprint", not that it would be absorbent.

You can buy coating for your windows that blocks RF.

e.g. http://www.scottishwindowtinting.com/residential-window-film...

Can usually get in via custom order from anywhere that does window tinting.

Turn the wifi hotspot on on your phone and blind it. It probably won't work so well if the background wifi signals keep moving around.

Since this uses standard WiFi, if you don't have a WiFi network, you're good!

Unless, of course, they are aware of it and try to subvert it by consciously modifying "their body shape characteristics and motion patterns".

I'd imagine a simple device that broadcasts noise or fake signals would be enough to throw it off. Lots of principles used in speed trap jammers could be used.

put some cold water and ice in the bathtube and wait inside it until the spiders left the building... :) (important link to understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901lYbPmqu4)

VP Product at aerial.ai (using similar strategies as this paper) here. A few major caveats to make this work:

a) There needs to be enough traffic happening on the network to have the resolution needed to differentiate between people. b) The device needs to be able to see the traffic. This won't protect you from a device in the home that has this technology, but it will from people standing outside of the home (as the signal attenuates a lot outside of the home)

Probably with a device that transmit in the same frequency of the WiFi network, just ending up distubing the signal

Very simple. Just use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

Run a cheap switched mode power supply in their pocket?

Aim a microwave at the door and modify it to run open

Tinfoil. Lots and lots of tinfoil.

Conductive meshes work as well provided that the holes are small enough.

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