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Rory Alsop

00:06

@nealmcb Have closed that one for the moment - I think we do need to look at this, for that very reason you have identified. There are numerous 'how to hack' sites out there. That is irrelevant here - this should be more around how to prevent, protect, repair and remediate in a professional environment.

nealmcb

@RoryAlsop Hmm - thought I was missing some vlogs there for a minute - but I'm guessing its just a typo :)

Rory Alsop

@nealmcb bloody smartphone autocomplete. fixed now :-)

nealmcb

@RoryAlsop What is the cool term for "smartphone autocomplete"? And when will smartphones learn to autocomplete it? :)

Rory Alsop

@nealmcb smeurgh! :-) They mess things very badly if you don't watch carefully.

damnyouautocorrect.com

nealmcb

@RoryAlsop Thanks. So when a question is closed, I presume an answer can't be selected - is that a permanent hit to the asker's "accept rate"?

Rory Alsop

00:23

I think so. I have to admit the close is more a temporary thing while we get wider discussion on what to do. It is off topic as it stands, however as I posted on that meta question, if we can work out a requirement for questions such as this to need answers with remediation then I would like to reopen it, as it then becomes practical and on topc again...ish

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Rebecca Chernoff

03:38

@RoryAlsop, check out the blog post on MSO...does that help answer your concerns? Let me know if not! (:

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Gilles

12:37

Q: Tracking position of a person inside a building.

How would one track the position of a person in a building? I have an idea but I am unsure of its validity. Provided wifi nodes are setup in known positions around a building, one could trilaterate the position of the person. Because the distance between the nodes is already known , things like...

Interesting question, but SO doesn't want it (not enough code, I guess)

I wonder if Security would like it? It's kind of relevant (availability of communications in a specific situation)

Scott Pack

The wireless management software my network team uses does this. Pretty neat stuff, though it's often less accurate than GPS would be.

Pretty neat stuff.

I see how they're trying to pull the 'civil emergency' approach though. One research project I worked on was using sensor meshes in buildings to detect impending structure failure.

They translated it into terrorist attack response in order to secure funding. That made me feel a bit skeezy.

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nealmcb

23:07

dup alert