User talk:TimeLord

Do you want to discuss the implications of having ever increasingly powerful data processing technologies available to ANYONE? Or should only holders of valid Amateur Radio Licences/ certificates or licence holding manufacturers be allowed direct acsess to the technology and the development kits and example code, some of which is even incorporated into military hardware as a consequence of developer lazyness. The same can be said for modern western made cars, each is a VERY loud radio emitter moving through the city or out in the desert. One can be easily tracked by these emissions, modern cars have Active FMCW RADAR's for lane keeping and park assist, etc.

So how much of our privacy do we give away by ALWAYS carrying something with a radio emitting signals that are easy to determine the origin of, our cars have RADAR sets and Cell Radios and a WiFi Acess Points built right into the them now. Or maybe here's a better question: Would You install bright lights on your clothes and on the outside of your car if you valued your security? Obviously not. Not only would you be easy to spot and follow, you would stand out in the first place. Here's the thing, radio waves ARE light and the reverse is true also, both are Electromagnetic Radiation; an electric field and a magnetic field moving together through space. Your Wifi Radio may as well be a strobe lamp, and in a way, it is. It sends data in packets, its "light" would be "seen" to flash on and off very rapidly. But nobody can see such long wavelengths right? Right. But our technology can now consist of massive arrays of Wide-band antennas (log-periodic dipole array) connected to equally Wide-Band SDR's connected to powerful computers, essentially the result is an "electromagnetic eye".