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Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper

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Re: Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper

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Just to be clear, I'm talking about weird dudes with prurient motivations scanning unconsenting people through the walls of their homes.

You mean cops?

Including but not limited to cops, sure.

Re: Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper

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Random side-fact: a co-worker who climbs a lot stopped using fingerprint sensors on his phones because his prints change frequently enough due to climbing, that it's basically useless.

Many years ago I had to clock in and out of a job with a fingerprint scanner. I had the same issue because I played acoustic guitar a lot and had thick calluses on my fingers that would occasionally crack.

I had continual issues ~20 years ago when I worked nightfill in a supermarket's perishable department. The freezer exposure apparently changed my prints enough that clocking out was an issue.

Re: Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper

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I can see through my blinds with a regular Nikon 300mm zoom lens .... I think because there is enough light going through the bunch of holes?

If you mean from the inside that’s a question of contrast. Look at a tv in a dark room through one side of a t-shirt a few inches from your face and it’s a non issue. Try the same while the side facing you is well lit and it does not work. Under some situations you can see through thin cloth blinds like this from the outside, but that’s mostly poor blind choices.

It's actually a blind on my backporch similar to this: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71rijF9vnlL... , but it has tiny gaps in-between each slats... I could see through the blind when I was zoomed in to 300mm while being a meter away from it... I could see my neighbor's house and the slats were invisible in the picture. Kind of creepy but I don't have this camera anymore so I cannot do anymore tests...
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