This tech could let the infrastructure carrying your data save water, too.
Weird, and interesting.
How long until this is extended into some new dystopian surveillance device, tracking footsteps or something…
Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months
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Septimaeus@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Hey, that’s awesome. I hope one day all the energy and brain power currently funneled into surveillance/marketing/control will be applied to problems like this. It’s the kind of common-good problem most engineers would prefer to work on anyway.