Datacenter · Frontier
Rogue Hardware Manifest: Differential Metal-Map Sweep
A nightly scan that finds new hidden metal boxes — even inside cabinets.
Plausible physics, early work — shown honestly as an experiment.
How it works
Metal reflects WiFi waves almost perfectly, so even a small new metal box changes how signals bounce around the room. Each night the system compares the room's signal map with the last approved baseline. Anything metallic that appeared since — a rogue server, a skimmer — shows up as a new reflection, with an estimated location.
In the physics: Metal has effectively infinite conductivity: even a paperback-sized metal enclosure is a strong new scatterer that adds a resolvable multipath component and perturbs the reconstructed sigma (conductivity) map; its position is triangulated from delay changes across multiple mesh links.
See it work
This is real pipeline output for Datacenter, replayed. The exact reading depends on your room.
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How the field becomes an answer
How we prove it
Own-hardware: place progressively smaller metal enclosures (19in chassis down to Raspberry-Pi-in-tin) at known positions in a live room, measure minimum detectable size vs. range and localization error; no public dataset covers this — this IS the frontier experiment.
Who it is for
Overnight rogue-device sweep for high-security halls — 'if anyone bolted a box into your room, the RF field itself will testify' — sold to the CISO worried about supply-chain and evil-maid hardware implants.
runtime Runs today in LatentField 2.0 as intrusion
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