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Waiting for the next Snowden. In the meantime, you can use your smartphone inside a Faraday cage. Wrapping it in aluminium should help.
by informatimago 13y ago
Waiting for the next Snowden.
In the meantime, you can use your smartphone inside a Faraday cage. Wrapping it in aluminium should help.
- na85 13y agoNot sure what you're implying with this comment. Is it that people concerned about security of their phones are wearing Tin-Foil Hats?
- bulatb 13y agoThat if governments have privileged access to the hardware, it's not safe to use a phone until a whistleblower tells us what exactly they can do.
- krapp 13y agoIt's not necessarily safe to trust the whistleblowers either you know. They can lie, or be lied to, and even they can't know everything. The only really safe assumption to work from is that all Turing-capable devices are evil.
- jlgreco 13y ago> you can use your smartphone inside a Faraday cage. Or, more accurately stated, "you can't".
- informatimago 13y agoYou can't phone, but you can use the smart, the computer inside the smartphone :-)
- noigretics 13y agoThe FBI has been tapping mobile phones as "roving bugs" for a decade: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
- diydsp 13y agoHeck, I'm sure it's been longer than a decade. Previous generations of mobile phones used FM unencrypted. You could eavesdrop on them with just a television that has a UHF dial on channels 70 to 83! (Audio carrier 811-889 MHz)
- astrodust 13y agoYou can't use it inside any sort of Faraday cage, that's pointless. It's to prevent people from accessing it while it's inside one. Pro tip: Refrigerator doesn't work, but cocktail shaker apparently does. (http://makezine.com/2013/06/26/edward-snowden-can-a-refrigerator-function-as-a-faraday-cage/ http://makezine.com/2013/06/26/edward-snowden-can-a-refriger...)
- jlgreco 13y agoI thought that the refrigerator was more about soundproofing (that way it wouldn't matter if it was listening or not.) Maybe if you are really in that sort of situation you should just do both, just in case.
- Amadou 13y agoI thought that the refrigerator was more about soundproofing (that way it wouldn't matter if it was listening or not.) I think it depends on the model. I tested a couple of phones, including a blackberry, inside my fridge a few years before Snowden did his thing. We put them in and then tried to call them and none of them rang. But the fridge was one of those trendy stainless steel models. Perhaps a more ordinary fridge would have less effect on signal strength.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoI've only seen fridges that are made with steel or aluminum. They would still leak RF around the door gaskets, but probably such a small amount that you'd have to be very close to a base station to be vulnerable, and it'd still be mostly soundproof.
- saraid216 13y ago> Waiting for the next Snowden. The pinnacle of democracy: waiting for someone else to do it.
- mindslight 13y agoNaw, the pinnacle of democracy is the entitled whining after the longstanding obvious truth has been laid bare. Who needs objective forethought?
- Zoomla 13y agoYou can keep it in a Faraday cage whenever you don't need to use it or aren't expecting a call... since it should block all radio signals.