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by tsumnia 2312 days ago
I envision a variation that sits in the corner of a room, similar to how a fan operates, gradually turning the speakers. However, as others mentioned, I'm curious over the effect it would have on hearing aids, etc. Secondly, if there a variation of this device that could straight up disable WiFi?
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BeefySwain 2312 days ago
Jamming wifi (as well as many (most?) other frequency bands) is very simple and very illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming

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tsumnia 2312 days ago
Right, that'd be my concern - that if their implementation could be modified in a similar manner to create jammers that would be quick to deploy but difficult to locate.
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moftz 2312 days ago
You could just have a simple Wifi deauth beacon. You can do it with a simple ESP8266 and could either kick everything off the network or target blacklisted MAC address ranges. It's usually illegal to do this to someone else's network just like running a real Wifi RF jammer.
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