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Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a four-legged robot designed to jam the wireless transmissions of smart home devices. The robot was revealed at the 2024 Border Security Expo and is called NEO. It is built using the Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) and looks a lot like the Boston Dynamics Spot robot.

According to the transcript of the speech by DHS Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) director Benjamine Huffman, acquired by 404 Media, NEO is equipped with an antenna array that is designed to overload home networks, thus disrupting devices that rely on Wi-Fi and other wireless communication protocols. It will thus likely be effective against a wide range of popular smart home devices that use wireless technologies for communications.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that interesting..

The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals..

Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people..

"I wonder" if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities..

( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists "hypocrites"..

I wonder how "Christian" he'd find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they're doing? )

Human nature & demon nature seem .. related?

or is that too harsh?

.. perhaps .. but wasn't the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

hmm...

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[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While I agree with the anti-authority statement, I have to say the rest of the post is approaching incoherence. This reads like you did translation party on some apologetics texts.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

It has an aneurysm or AI vibe, for sure.