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Please dance the Amazon Verification Dance.

I cannot fathom any good use for this technology.



- Automatically alert emergency services to cardiac arrest - Health monitoring - intrusion detection - gesture control


Adaptive ventilation and maybe even heating of rooms depending on the number of people present.


You can add a 100 euro CO2 sensor to control your HVAC.

There isn't a use case for this that isn't abusive outside an industrial setting.

I think if ISPs push for these in routers we will see comeback of rewiring houses with ethernet points.


I can see ISPs forcing you to use their modem with this WiFi built in. Then even if you put it in bridge mode, the WiFi stays active while it tracks you.


If an exclusive/monopoly ISP took that approach, the modem could be surrounded by copper mesh which allows air circulation for cooling, but impedes RF.


And if everyone in the world setup TOR gateways and used TOR for everything then the survailiance and ad instry would collapse overnight.

Back in the real world it would be frightingly effective.


Buying copper mesh from shop is far more accessible to average user than setting up TOR relay.


You can find out if TOR is work8ng by typing in 'what is my IP' into google.

How do you know if your sepf made faray cage is leaking?

Are you going to get an expensive spectrum analiser? Do you know how to use it?

I can go on the street and find a random person who understands networking withing 10 minutes. I have never met a RF engineer in my life.


> How do you know if your sepf made faray cage is leaking?

Using ruler. If holes are smaller than 5mm, it will block 60Ghz.


There are far less invasive ways to do so. Like, for example, an IR sensor.




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