Time to sound the alarm about 5G?

American Thinker ^ | 05/01/2019 | Robert Arvay

[SeekAndFind]

My grandmother cooked in her kitchen on a wood-burning stove until, at 92 years of age, she passed away. Wood stove technology is not as simple as some people think. We may have to learn it all over again. Here is why:

I recently read an online article about something called 5G and became aware that this innovation will potentially enable any large government, our own or our adversaries, to spy, hack, sabotage or otherwise wreak havoc on the entire world infrastructure of communication and security. This is not hyperbole. It is as real as nuclear bombs, and if not as destructive, it poses almost as deadly a threat. Indeed, the 5G cyber-war might well spark a nuclear conflagration.

The network on which cell phones operate is being upgraded. That innovation will, as they say, usher in a new age of vast potential. It can also be weaponized against us. An enemy could plunge us back into the dark ages.

Is this for real? Apparently, very serious authorities are concerned. The biggest internet tech companies are already accruing surveillance powers that rival those of our own government, and in all likelihood, exceed them. Worse yet, many of those companies are hostile to our nation, refusing to assist our military, while eagerly aiding the foreign dictatorships that threaten our freedoms.

It is difficult to state the problem without sounding like chicken-little, or like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D), who claims that the world will end in twelve years.

It may, but not because of climate-change, which we cannot remedy, but because China's dictator-for-life is methodically developing the technological power to dictate to the world. If he succeeds, the world may not end, but it may as well.

At or near the center of this geopolitical storm is the Chinese company called Huawei.

[lepton]

A long time ago, there was this thing called side-lobe, which was an intractable problem and which sent a lot of the power in directions that were more than merely wasteful, but also insecure. Engineers noticed that sidelobe isn’t merely a spreading of EM, but an interaction of the energies, creating multiple lobes at specific proportions to the main signal, and at specific natural angles. This applied to both telecommunications, and radar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_lobe

Then engineers learned how to cancel out sidelobe, and now line of sight was both more efficient, and less simple to eavesdrop on.

One of the things you may notice is that cellular antennae would come in groups of three - at 120-degree facings from one another. Now they come in groups of three, with several subcomponents, such as a electromagnetic wave refractor, which allows enhanced directionality.

Later, engineers learned how to use a similar cancellation effect to split beams, and make the main bursts of power extend in odd directions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO

These MIMO (Multiple input, multiple output) antennae were in use with 4G, and represent a large improvement in channel capacity over 3G. 5G takes that to an order of magnitude better, with a host of other improvements.

Think of the bumps on a ferro-fluid, then imagine tens of thousands of bumps, each electronically tunable by strengthening and cancelling lobes via resonance. The physical antenna points in an arc. Electronically, the signal is broken into tens of thousands of beams capable of each being aimed anywhere in that 120-degree arc, plus a little, as well as to a lesser extent, up and down.

[lepton]

oh, and radar is looking at tens to hundreds of miles, with atmospheric bending often out of its control. 5G nodes are designed to be every few hundred yards, and making use of ricocheting off buildings.

[Grampa Dave]

All present and future electronic communication can be monitored, hacked and modified.

My question as an old man does 5 G offer any advantages for my wife and I, siblings, in laws and relatives running businesses from their homes or rented offices?

So far I have been told that 5G will be like JFK’s landing Americans on the moon. My great/great/great grandkids will supposedly benefit from 5 G.

We have 3 Chromebooks, 2 Android Phones and a Amazon Fire tablet used to monitor weather station 100 yards away and for my Kindle books.

3 years ago we cut our cable and use Comcast business internet, phone and to stream a couple of hours of tv per evening. I bank and manage our IRA’s with a Chromebook.

The Comcast internet is very fast and reliable. Data is entered or retrieved by our ChromeBooks, Smart Phones and Fire tablet very rapidly. We never have the revolving little circle showing that the system is overloaded. The only time that happens is usually the result of a drunk driver taking out a telephone pole with phone cables on it.

Siblings with their own businesses use Macs or Chromebooks and either Apple or Android end user phones/tablets. They don’t need anything that is faster.

The most technical guy still uses Windows 7 and Comcast business internet and Apple Phones.

So again why do we need 5 G. Saving our intel is a bs argument.