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>For the people kinda worried: this is a highly specialized piece of glass that is extremely complicated to manufacture at present and must, due to the laws of
by Johnny555 3y ago
>For the people kinda worried: this is a highly specialized piece of glass that is extremely complicated to manufacture at present and must, due to the laws of thermodynamics, not be 100% transparent. It's not going to allow surveillance through existing glass installations in any form
If you're worried that your Airbnb host is going to use it to spy on you (which was mentioned in the article), unless you already scrutinize every nail hole, photo frame, electrical appliance, electrical outlets, smoke detector, etc, this doesn't open up a new vulnerability.
Pinhole cameras with a lens as small as 2mm are already readily available and cheap, no ones going to use an expensive "window camera" to spy on you when they already have so many other options.
Perhaps those that fear government surveillance or other well funded adversaries may have cause for concern, but few of us are in that category.
- theyinwhy 3y agoPinhole cameras by definition do not have lenses and are known since 500 BCE or 1893 if you need a recording unit ;)
- Johnny555 3y agoLanguage and technology has evolved a bit since 1893: https://www.google.com/search?q=pinhole+surveillance+camera https://www.google.com/search?q=pinhole+surveillance+camera
- theyinwhy 3y agoBut does the use of the word pinhole make any sense if it is not a pinhole but a "3.7mm" lense? Pinhole camera is a specific term used for more than a century now. It is well defined. Now someone from marketing thought "let's call our small camera a pinhole camera". Sry, but that is not a pinhole camera. That camera also exists since ages and is called an endoscope camera. Words are important in IT and if everyone would just think a bit more about terms they use we would have way less friction with business and less business logic bugs.
- Johnny555 3y ago>Words are important in IT and if everyone would just think a bit more about terms they use we would have way less friction with business and less business logic bugs. I wish you the best of luck in your quest to make the English language follow rational rules.
- ithkuil 3y agoI think there is value in complaining and resisting a bit, but one has to be ready to let go when the point of no return is crossed.
- zestyping 3y agoI support you!
- fennecbutt 3y agoNobody would ever find a OV6948 if it was hidden.