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<pre wrap="">On 2017-07-16 11:55, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
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<pre wrap="">A careless repair technician can defeat a Faraday cage by failing to replace one screw (that tiny one that fell behind the desk). A malicious tech can turn an RF gasketed seam into a slot antenna with a few drops of clear nail polish.
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<pre wrap="">While I'd agree about the 'slot antenna (because of the length of the
slot), a Faraday cage doesn't need to be a perfect, seamless enclosure
to work.
Quoting from a Gamry Instruments' web page: "the penetration of EM
radiation is limited to oscillations that have wavelengths shorter than
twice the diameter of the opening. So a 1 cm opening allows 2 cm and
shorter wavelengths, which correspond to 150+ GHz noise." A missing
small screw's hole, say 3mm diameter, would pass through some 500GHz or
shorter/faster wavelengths but still block all the lower frequencies.
A Faraday cage made out of metal mosquito screens would be plenty fine
for almost all computers. I've seen some enclosing high-security
government rooms or parts of rooms. In their case, the screen's
material was copper. Pure, fingerprint-covered copper.
Paul
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