Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products

Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by lm28469 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:33AM (#24919941)

> Disconnect from the internet and nobody is getting in, including the NSA.

Wait until they put 5g chips in every single product to make them "smart". Few people talk about that but I believe it's the main use case for 5g. Everything will be connected and you'll have no way to opt out

> 4G can support about 4,000 devices per square kilometre, whereas 5G will support around one million

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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by ReactiveJelly on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:34PM (#24925808)

Who pays for the connection?

I assume for the radio to stay on, it's either subsidized by the parent company (Amazon pays for Alexa's 5G) or I'm paying for a subscription (Xbox subscription pays for 5G on some future mobile XBox)

Maybe you could get the cost down to $1 / month. If you invest $400 in the market it should pay out about that much, so you could make it a one-time payment of $400 for a 5G chip.

Consumer network connections, of any kind I'm aware of, don't go down to $1 per month. Maybe with a big volume order and a low bandwidth cap the cell companies would do it, or maybe 5G itself is just cheaper, but where does that monthly cost come from?

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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by lm28469 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:03AM (#24929179)

I have no answer but the amount of data that could be collected and the possibility to transmit ads to anything with a speaker or screen even if they're not connected to your wifi would be attractive to many companies.

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