Posted on 10/23/2015 7:05:19 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
Your next tinfoil hat will won’t be made of tinfoil. A small company called Conductive Composites out of Utah has developed a flexible material — thin and tough enough for wallpaper or woven fabric — that can keep electronic emissions in and electromagnetic pulses out.
(Excerpt) Read more at defenseone.com ...
How well does it work on wiping servers?
Maybe make pantsuits out of it.
Bfl
Carbon-nickel pantsuit?
And it will keep your cell phone from bothering you!
Was an article recently about NYC have several of them at $800k X-ray trucks, they refused to say what they were used for.
Before one can be safe from electronic monitoring, one must determine the methods being used by the spy agency.
So the outfit making this product has had the full cooperation of the US government and has been allowed to test against all of their methods?
Why would I doubt it?
Only because I am an old curmudgeon?
“NSA-Proof Wallpaper”
I need some of that. An extended family member works for the NSA and I’m never sure there aren’t “listener” devices around the house. :o)
I think it keeps your cell phone from bothering anyone else.
The family member’s house or your house?
My house. :o)
A house built with a metal frame instead of wood does about the same thing. Like someone else posted, it also prevents your phone from bothering you :p
I thought copper mesh was used for this purpose.
Yes, you can construct a Faraday cage out of copper mesh or even steel plates.
However, it is difficult to construct a cage of any significant size that doesn't have any "leaks". And, electrical cables, network cables, and even water pipes have to be filtered so they don't conduct radio frequencies.
What's different about this is it's as simple to deploy as wallpaper. It would be interesting to find out if it is easy to seal "gaps".
Functions like a Faraday cage? (I’m not technical.) The article stated that they converted the Sistine Chapel into one while the cardinals were dying to tweet the ID of the next pope.
What’s off-putting about home applications is that you usually don’t wallpaper your windows. Don’t windows allow leaks?
Add some of this... Researchers create blackest material ever made
And some of that ... Infinitely fast light with new zero-index material
You just need the right kind of windows:
The MIL STD that it meets has a minimum requirement of 50 dB attenuation at frequencies at or above 10 MHz.
There are coatings for windows.
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