Monica’s recently sat down with the Surviving the Minefield podcast to discuss The Devil Inside the Beltway and mass surveillance
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What the government sells with 5G, is bandwidth. So a telecom operator is allowed to use certain frequencies in the radio spectrum exclusively. It is just like your radio spectrum has a license from the government to a certain frequency.
Unlike Wifi, which operates in an unlicensed band (but not unregulated) In Wifi, where you do not need a license to transmit. The ISM band is unlicensed. 2.4GHz, 5 GHz and soon some 6 GHz bands will be unlicensed (the devices operating there still have to meet government regulations, but you don’t have to pay them a fee.) The mobile operators HAVE to pay government for use of their frequencies.
In my ancap mind, government likes to keep closer control of longer distance communications, but wifi and the stuff to open your garage door, they only regulate, but do not license.
Monica is blown away by quantum entanglement (e.g. Calcium atom emitting 2 entangled photons or electrons, which remain entangled at great distances). But that is already quite old. It puzzled Einstein. Although he fathered the quantum revolution, later in his life he became disillusioned by it (You can read about the controversie he had with Niels Bohr in the book Quantum by Manjit Kumar). He wrote a paper with Podolsky and Rosen about the EPR paradox in 1935
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
Einstein did not believe in what he called ‘spooky action at a distance’ which would violate his special relativity theory, which limits everything to the speed of light. The ‘spooky action at a distance’ was the logical outcome of QM and EPR concluded that QM was at least incomplete. There was no way to verify whether EPR or Niels Bohr were right at the time.
Later the Irish physicist John Steward Bell devised an experiment to determine who was right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Bell
Although he also was siding with Einstein, the execution of the experiment in 1972 proved entanglement and spooky action at a distance was a thing.
It proved difficult however to think through all the consequences, just like with the relativity theory. Although entanglement was real, it did *not* allow for communication faster than light and relativity still holds. You can *detect* the spin off one entangled photon and then the other entangled photon *gets* the opposite spin *immediately*. But detecting it on one side is not equal to setting it. To communicate at infinite speeds, you would need to *set* it (with the information you want to transmit). That can not be done.
The only practical application left for entanglement thus far is encryption. You can use the spin of the stream of entangled photons to encrypt and decrypt a message and it is impossible to decrypt. So two agents, both receiving one side of the entangled particle, can use it to decrypt and encrypt messages and it is impossible to decrypt it by a third party.
But no faster than light communication is possible with entangled particles.
I hope that demystifies it a little bit.