Posted on 06/26/2013 6:27:23 AM PDT by RummyChick
“What you want to do is block the radio signals which could be used to transmit voice data, and block the audio altogether,” Adam Harvey, a designer specializing in countersurveillance products explained. Refrigerators made from metal with thick insulation could potentially do both, he says, regardless of whether it is mild or icy within.
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I believe your microwave oven is a Faraday cage. That might work also.
Very interesting!
Just don’t hit start...
Microwaves work particularly well.
Doesnt sleep mode inhibit all phone signal communications?
That was the whole purpose.
I keep mine (iphone 5) in sleep much of the day when I wont use it.
If it cant transmit or receive it cant be remotely turned on.
My understanding has been that the battery has to be removed to end all radio transmissions, short of the barrier method they are suggesting.
From the movies...don’t you want to remove the SIM card..or is that only so you won’t be tracked
Doesnt sleep airplane mode inhibit all phone signal communications?
That was the whole purpose.
I keep mine (iphone 5) in sleep airplane mode much of the day when I wont use it.
If it cant transmit or receive it cant be remotely turned on.
As far as I can tell my phone never turns off completely but many battery reg apps allow you to shutdown any app.
In case people don’t know, the reason this was done is because, even if your phone is off, someone tapping into your phone can listen in on whatever is going on in the room through the microphone. So, essentially, we are all carrying bugs on us most of the time.
but you could just take your battery out...or is there some other little battery in there we don’t know about
I recently heard the CIO of the CIA tell an audience the battery had to be out for you to not be tracked.
‘One feature of Airplane mode is that it saves power. Because the device doesn't search for a network signal as in other modes, the battery lasts longer.’
Which is why I started using Airplane mode, but I also have free battery doctor.
Not necessarily, although that is what we are being told. I have detected radio signals from my phone while in sleep mode (in a lab, of course). Not even removing the battery will interrupt all potential for transmission and / or recording, as there are small batteries on the boards themselves.
There is a reason we were not allowed to bring the danged things into any controlled access areas of a facility. It didn’t matter of they were on/off, batteries/SIM cards removed. The only way to be sure was to not have them around.
So would a small piece of aluminum foil wrapped around the phone, or a tin box and lid.
Finally, a use for the metal box in which one of my watches was sold a few years ago. I can envision keeping my phone in one of those at times, if for no other reason than to tick off the NSA. :)
That is what I concluded. It is not the phone that lies during airplane mode, but its the people who cant be trusted who possess them. Snowdon wanted them in a cooler so he knew no-one was recording him. Same with those gov jobs.
To avoid ‘I could have sworn in was in AP mode, I dont know how this happened’
Clever!
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