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Calling Inspector Gadget [Microwave Surfing]

2017; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mmm.2017.2760539

1557-9581

Rajeev Bansal,

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Unless you were away earlier this year on an intergalactic mission, you probably picked up the heavy media buzz around the claim [1] made by an “important government source”: There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their . . . certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. So we know that that is just a fact of modern life. So: is it really a fact of modern life that microwaves can spy on you? It depends on the meaning of microwaves. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [2], the word means either “a comparatively short electromagnetic wave; especially: one between about one millimeter and one meter in wavelength” or a “microwave oven.”