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Faraday Cages In Your Kitchen

By on July 2, 2013 in Culture, Hardware, Odds And Ends, Politics, Science, Smartphones
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Paranoiacs rejoice! Last week, Heather Murphy of the New York Times explained that Edward Snowden had lawyers place their cell phones in a refrigerator to block the signals, using the fridge as a makeshift Faraday cage. Murphy quoted Adam Harvey, a countersurveillance products designer, who said that a martini shaker is a foolproof Faraday cage that can […]

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Edward Snowden Boards Wikileaks Airlines

By on June 24, 2013 in Culture, Politics
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Edward Snowden has taken the world on a wild ride over the last two and a half weeks, revealing first a pair of massive NSA surveillance programs, and then his own identity, motives, and level of access to the sort of information he revealed. This weekend, Snowden himself became the focus of the story. On […]

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