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by jimmytidey 1074 days ago
I remember reading that Royal Navy engineers maintaining nuclear submarines use Li-Fi to connect their workstations to the network.

They said it was a security requirement - does seem extraordinarily elaborate. It feels like using wires could have been a simpler answer...

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Interesting and agreed. Is it more secure (or less detectable) than Ethernet? I suppose Ethernet has some form of magnetic radiation. I wonder what all this infrared light bouncing around will do to us monkeys.
I don't mean to alarm you, but you emit infrared light.
Make us infinitesimally warmer?
Wires likely permit too much side-channel to be safe.