RE: TinFoil Hat Don't Work - MIT Research

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

If it emits an Electro Magnetic Pulse to knock out power, the faraday cage (GROUNDED mind you) will work.

  I'll have to fully read what's up on that link... At first glance it certainly sounds interesting :-) 


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
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EMC ² Corporation 
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email:  Blanchard_Michael () EMC COM 

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Towles [mailto:toddtowles () brookshires com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:06 AM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec); funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] TinFoil Hat Don't Work - MIT Research

 

Mike wrote:
>  You'll also want to completely line your garage and computer 
> room with the same brass screen mesh (can be copper if you 
> prefer, actually any electrical conductor should work), that 
> way when the government nukes us... Er... When the terrorists 
> nuke us...OR when the Martians send their EMP pulse before 
> they invade, you'll still have a working vehicle and working 
> computers / electronics.   Just don't expect your cell phone 
> to work inside those rooms :-)

Even if they use the BLU-114/B Carbon Fiber "Soft-bomb"?

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/blu-114.htm

-Todd

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