Wi-fi Signals Can Reveal Your Password

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
3 min readMar 17, 2019

There are some things in science that you think are so unbelievable that they are impossible. So, did you know that you can detect someone’s breathing and heart rate, even if you are in the next room? Well you can, as breathing and skin movements affect the propagation of wi-fi signals, and the changes in the wi-fi signal can be detected for even the smallest of movements:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.