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"to create a data exfiltration vector"

That sounds interesting, could you expand please?

You can modulate an LED at a very high frequency and with the correct receiver send data[1] theoretically you could put a passive receiver into a light fitting (or something as low tech as a high gain microphone), have it record data and then play it back via the LED's, someone walking through the building with the correct receiver could then download the data.

It's a long shot but intelligence services have done strange things (fake rocks, bugging devices in typewriters, setting up cameras over copy machines etc etc)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi

Calling it a long shot is almost like an over-estimation.

And vetoing the sale of a billion dollar company because of the super niche spy case? Yeah, no, that isn't credible.

Why? do you think USA national security isn't worth more than a billion?

How can you have a doubt after all that we have known post-Snowden

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