[LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 06:03:02PM +1000, David wrote:
> "[...] This will impact traditional device communications as well as
> enabling a vast network of machine-to-machine communications without undue
> energy consumption, network equipment cost or deployment cost."

I suspect that this is the reason.  Cheap high-bandwidth IoT spyware shit
embedded in everything.

The "problem" with IoT at the moment is that consumer units can disable it or
block it at their firewalls if they're technically savvy enough, or can hire
people to do that for them. Or just refrain from buying IoT-enabled stuff. The
goal is technology like this doesn't require the (mis-)use of the consumer's
own network bandwidth and is cheap enough to embed in anything and everything.

Always-on, all-pervasive constant surveillance to serve corporate and
government needs. No escape possible.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>