• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Besides, if researchers can do this successfully, you would imagine three-letter agencies around the world could do it even better.

    You can’t just listen to a random fiber on the switch. You’d have to prepare a piece carefully and add the measuring system, by which point a micro is easier and smaller.

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      Yeah, it basically says, “researchers could potentially measure vibrations in the air to detect speech.”

      I know. That’s how speech works.

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      23 hours ago

      There was a demonstration of this where they had loops set up around a building simulating a network distance. They put music on a phone and walked to a distance they said was some kilometers away and were able to pick up the music without issue.