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   powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 06:10:31 JST powersoffour

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   • Matt Blaze
   • Steve Bellovin

   @SteveBellovin @mattblaze I'm sure it's old news to you, but I absolutely never get tired of watching this video about the intersection of graphics/viz/Star Wars:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_gUIfFot-A

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     Steve Bellovin (stevebellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 06:10:32 JST Steve Bellovin

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     • Matt Blaze

     @mattblaze Instead of Kyllo, next teach Kylo (Ren). (Aside: many years ago, back at Bell Labs, I had a supervisor who loved SF movies. Any time a good new one had opened, he'd declare the afternoon time for a computer graphics conference and we'd all head out…)

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 06:10:33 JST Matt Blaze

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     The thermal imaging system used by the government in Kyllo (in 1991) was a breadbox sized camera with an analog video output that had to be hooked up to a power supply, video monitor, and VCR. It cost about $100K.

     Today's version has better resolution and dynamic range and fits in a small dongle that attaches to a smartphone. It costs less than a couple hundred bucks and you can get it delivered overnight from Web vendors.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 06:10:35 JST Matt Blaze

     Covered Kyllo in my surveillance and tech class today. We had fun making thermal imaging selfies.