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Didn't Israeli students show that you can recover audio from the vibrations of bulb filament with a fast photo diode? I'd test that with a CCD line sensor plu
by Salmonfisher11 2y ago
Didn't Israeli students show that you can recover audio from the vibrations of bulb filament with a fast photo diode?
I'd test that with a CCD line sensor plus a wide aperture lens and reading it out with 8kHz. Then you have 128 audio pixels that can cover an entire city.
- killjoywashere 2y agoLine of sight might be an issue there. I'm thinking more high-end clandestine eavesdropping. Fun fact: curtains are a pretty good defeat for laser microphones, but if the building is really old and made of solid stone, you can point at the rock instead!
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoThe rock?! That’s incredible. I would have guessed it was too dense to pick up normal speaking volume. Then again, even the window glass vibration seems pretty magical to me.