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"Faraday cage" is my one-size-fits-all answer. It turns out I kinda have that already. My 1919 house has plastered walls, some of which have a wire mesh under
by randcraw 4y ago
"Faraday cage" is my one-size-fits-all answer.
It turns out I kinda have that already. My 1919 house has plastered walls, some of which have a wire mesh underlay. It blocks wifi signals between rooms beautifully.
- labster 4y agoThe fact that people would even consider living in Faraday cages to keep their refrigerator from spying makes me think our society went seriously wrong somewhere.
- walrus01 4y agoMaybe the Unabomber was a loony and also had a few valid points (broken clock is right twice a day, etc) also.
- medion 4y agoI think he had/has a lot of valid points.
- slackfan 4y agonah, no caveat. dude was right.
- mindslight 4y agoRight in his critique, but he had nothing worthwhile on how to address it. Hence his resulting attempt of 1. Send bombs to technologists 2. ????? 3. Mass social uprising. On this particular topic, basic software Freedom would be sufficient. But apparently enough people don't even care to make purchasing decisions based on anti-features. Or at the minimum, say hiring a technician to fix your brand new fridge as described in OP. So, as seems to be the trend, most people are effectively content letting technology take away their agency. A small number of us can swim in the stream of navigating it so we don't get ruled over by it, but once you're doing all that work just to tread water it becomes awfully tempting to use your understanding to subjugate others.
- bombcar 4y agoMy wife asks why I carry the gun in the house. I say it’s to shoot Decepticons. Wife laughs. Kids laugh. Toaster laughs. I shoot the toaster.
- DeathArrow 4y ago>"Faraday cage" is my one-size-fits-all answer. Until it won't be legal to impair Big Brother watching you.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoDo you still get mobile phone reception ok? Happy to be proven wrong, wouldn't a Faraday Cage need to be tuned to absorb whatever wavelength you're aiming to block? In the same way that you can see in to a microwave because the terahertz μm waves can pass through the holes but the microwave mm waves are blocked.
- scarby2 4y agoAfaik The holes in the faraday cage must be smaller than the wavelength you seek to block. If a faraday cage were to block WiFi it would also block your cellphone.
- Retric 4y agoOnly if it needs to cross the cage, you can have a base station inside the cage and another outside just fine.
- jeanchen 4y agoSo, Faraday cage around the refrigerator? I'll keep this one in mind...
- throwaway744678 4y agoPut your fridge in a bigger one!
- ajb 4y agoGood luck keeping your car in a faraday cage though.
- Freestyler_3 4y agoMy wallet is a faraday cage. No reading my cards without actually taking them out.