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In this case, it is not so much tracking things by their own transmissions, but by their reflection of ambient radio (here, broadcast TV.)

17 days from the HN front page to being shut down.

It would have been the IEEE article that got the attention

Oh that's cool, so it's a radar using ambient radio as illuminator?

Indeed, it's so cool that it has military applications and gets restricted as a result.