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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)

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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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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This roaming robotic jammer was first contemplated after a child sexual abuse suspect used his doorbell camera to see FBI agents at his door serving a search warrant. The gunman opened fire on them from behind the closed door with an assault-style rifle, killing two veteran agents and injuring three more.

Fuck pedos and abusers, and I'm sorry for those agents' families' losses, but it sounds like they went in without having done their homework on who they were arresting.

And now the rest of us have to pay the price for half-finished police work—on a single case—with an authoritarian ”solution.”

ACAB.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 20 points 4 months ago

I have the same attitude for cops as I do Zionists.

Zionists - if you hate 1200 dead, wait til you hear about the 40k dead in Palestine.

Cops - If you hate the ~50-60 murdered cops over the last year, wait til you hear about the 1100 or so civilians murdered.

I can be sympathetic to deaths of any kind, but not when they're martyred explicitly to dehumanize and justify violence against the masses.