[Cryptography] jammers, nor not

[Jonathan Thornburg]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 05:21:12PM -0800, Ron Garret wrote:
> Wrapping your gadgets in aluminum foil should be pretty effective
> at (ahem) foiling their attempts to contact a wifi hub.

Unless your entire home is wrapped in aluminum foil (including
rf-blocking coatings on all windows (permanently closed!)), it's hard
to *use* a {printer, refrigerator, washing mashine, coffee maker, ...}
while said object is wrapped in aluminum foil. :)

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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jthorn4242 at gmail-animal.com>
   Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
   "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
    at any given moment.  How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
    plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.  It was even conceivable
    that they watched everybody all the time."  -- George Orwell, "1984"