Comment Transparent walls (Score 1) 218
LEDs don't transmit through walls unless they happen to be transparent, like, say, a WINDOW. And while your GHz-based wireless signal drops off just down the block, the signals leaking through your window can be picked up from miles away with a telescope. Didn't we learn this from the modem-blinkenlights exploit like 10 years ago? I suppose most of us have also learned how to use encryption in the interim..