• Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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    You just need to write it smaller than the Wi-Fi wavelength (about 60 nm) and you should be fine. If someone wants to read it, they have to use smaller wavelengths (i.e. higher frequencies), which means there’s a good chance that they will be blocked by your walls.

    Edit: c/2.4 GHz ≈ 125 mm I took the first value from Wikipedia, without thinking about it enough.

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      I think your fag packet calculation has got a power of ten wrong somewhere. Wi-fi is GHz so that would be on the order of centimetres I think.

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      1 year ago

      What if I use an awesome font like Comic Sans and round the faces like party balloons? Still visible?

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        It’s all about the size. You can’t use an optical microscope to look at details smaller than the wavelength of visible light. You need an electron microscope for that. Similarly, a wifi camera can’t see details smaller that the wavelength.

        If you made a camera that can see in 100 MHz radio waves, you could probably see mountains, rivers and houses, but anything smaller than 3 m would be nothing but blur.