[Cryptography] jammers, nor not

[Jerry Leichter]

> Perhaps it's time to start a new housing development: "Faraday Flats".
> 
> When I lived in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, I met someone whose business was building Faraday Cage rooms for several million dollars a pop.  They had the usual suspect customers: Lockheed, Northrup, etc., as well as the tin-foil hat conspiracy types.  I didn't realize that the tin-foil types had that much money, but I was reminded that I was in Hollywood.
Disney Research Labs - who knew there was such a thing? - has recently talked about some work they've been doing in wireless power:  http://mashable.com/2017/02/21/disney-solves-real-wireless-charging/  They use a room (could be as large as a whole warehouse) with metal walls and a pipe running through the middle that's the exciter; the whole room is some kind of resonant cavity within which they can efficiently transfer power.

So ... we may be about to solve several classic problems at once:

1.  Wireless power;
2.  Privacy via home/office Faraday cages;
3.  A place to practice pole dancing.

Oh ... and it comes from an LA company to boot!

                                                        -- Jerry :-)