If you plugged in consistently same time changes for your PERSONAL latency, then that would 'map' seamlessly. If you programmed random noise, I expect that would stand out like a sore thumb during the 'mapping' process (I expect your hardware would have to be 'pinged' hundreds of times, and random latencies beyond expected noise would show up). Assuming changing latency at the wall would do anything for you, you'd have to be able to detect the mapping operation, and change to some random value after the mapping- and repeat the process after every mapping.
The problem is, detecting the mapping operation would be very tough, it would likely look like just any old worm scanning for vulnerabilites- something that can happen thousands of times a day in some target-rich environments. Beyond that, dozens of very simple disguising algos on the mapping procedure could make it very hard to detect.
I still doubt that this would give anyone anything more specific than a few thousand home addresses, possibly with a few clusters from which to choose.
DL
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- Here's the patent
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