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Security Tents
- teddyh 13y ago> US security officials demand that their bosses - not just the president, but members of Congress, diplomats, policymakers and military officers - take such precautions when travelling abroad because it is widely acknowledged that their hosts often have no qualms about snooping on their guests. “No qualms” indeed.
- nodata 13y agoNext up: Guantanamo-style "secure hoods" containing smart "Google Glass"-style glasses.
- andrewcooke 13y agofwiw, this was reported in the local press when he was here (chile), although i can't find anything now. that was a couple of years back, so this isn't new.
- rwmj 13y agoNothing new. There's a picture of the inside of one of these tents[1] and Wikipedia covers them[2]. [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12810675 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12810675 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_Facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...
- nekopa 13y agoTrue, but what he mentions, and what you can see in the photo is that they forgot about the floor. Unless the security tent comes with a floral printed, carpeted floor...
- moocowduckquack 13y agoI wonder what you could do with some optic fibre woven in...
- pinko 13y agoI suspect it does, in fact. If you've got to travel with a rolled up foil-lined rug anyway, might as well make it pretty.
- rwmj 13y agoWhy do you think that all these technical people would forget about the floor? So the tent comes with a crappy carpet, so what?
- masterponomo 13y agoInvented by Mel Brooks in the 60's: http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cone-of-silence-1.jpg http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cone-of-silen...
- joezydeco 13y agoChurchill might have scooped Brooks. Winston Churchill's secure telephone line from his Cabinet War Rooms to Washington DC was housed in a small closet. Rumors were that this was Churchill's private bathroom and everyone left it alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthony-gurr/10782926364/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthony-gurr/10782926364/
- eudox 13y agoAll those people living in basements lined with tinfoil were right all along.
- 16s 13y agoThe Cone of Silence lives.
- mkramlich 13y agostartup idea: it sounds increasingly like there could be market demand for a commercial product equivalent