On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 09:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a joke?"
What is most poignant about this post is the lack of education of /. authors. Don't they teach Maxwell any more? Is Faraday just the guy who said "Sir, I do not know what it is good for. But of one thing I am quite certain--someday you will tax it."
Put your cell phone in a metal tin, and call it. Wrap your access point or receiver or other radio in Al foil. Do you think Brin in _Enemy of the State_ was just a potato-chip fetishist?
But, but, but ... This is *government approved* metal foil. It's the good stuff. You can trust them -- they're from the government, and they're here to help. On your broader point, yah. I'll check out /. once in a while for pointers to news items and more rarely for the "ask slashdot" items, but most of the comments are garbage and probably half of the posts are garbage. The question is, has /. gotten worse since it was fresh, or have I grown less tolerant of ill-informed, shoot-off-at-the-mouth kiddies? (I have a 4-digit slashdot user id, to show how long ago I came across them.)