My comments interspersed. __________________________________________________________________ From: John Young To: jim bell ; cryptography@randombit.net; cypherpunks@cpunks.org; cryptography@metzdowd.com Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Help investigate cell phone snooping by police nationwide >Tinfoil is not sufficent any more due to increased sensitivy of >interceptors. False protection left in place as ploy. It might help if the cell phone was first wrapped in RF-absorptive sheet or foam, and then wrapped in aluminum foil. As a ham (callsign N7IJS; oddly, I'm the last "tech-plus" ham in the country due to the refusal of the FCC to act on my January 2010 license renewal application), I am reasonably aware of the technology. There are probably dissipative ferrite materials embedded in plastic/rubber sheeting which would do a good job absorbing RF. Example just found with google search: [1]RF and Microwave Absorber - Ferrite Tiles and Foam Absorber I found that using Google 'rf dissipation ferrite sheet'. >False TEMPEST protection is especially effective, the best >remains classified in a rolling fashion: more leaked to delude >the more unleaked of what works. Inadvertent emanations >are increasingly inadvertent as research in those waves >leaps by giant bounds. >Not news to this crafty gaggle of uncontrollably paranoidic >deceptors braying about faults, patches, new faults, new >paths, rolling thunder to panic herds of panic-herders, >pardon, infiltrated standards setters. >Jim, you may be the only experienced expert here in >betrayal by trustees inside and outside the penal colony, >pardon, West of the Pecos justice rigged-comsec >industry. All hail MIT, industry leader of techno-rigging. MIT does seem to get around! (Full disclosure: I spent four years there, 1976-1980). >BTW, are you at liberty to reveal the secrets of bio-chemical >TEMPEST? The inadvertent body odor is somewhat more >reliable than facial and corporeal. Rumor of testing on the >bio-chem harvesting in prisons, separation of sexes into >their many varieties of posturing, impostering, hybridity >and crossings. I would be happy to reveal any 'secrets' I know, problem is I don't really know any secrets. I haven't heard of analysis of bio-chem in prison, with the exception of DNA testing near the end of a sentence. I would imagine it would be possible to analyze the odor of a person using GCMS (gas-chromatograph/mass-spectrometer), and that should be extremely sensitive. How selective it is, between one person and another, is a question I do not know. And, of course, a given person's 'signal' could be expected to vary depending on his recent diet, or perhaps whether he has been ill recently. I have heard occasional references to the idea of diagnosing people of various illnesses based on the presence of minute amounts of chemicals in breath (a neat idea, BTW). >After 9/11 batteries of full sprectrum bio-chem sensors >were set up in NYC transporation nodes, pretending to be >about snffing for bombs but actually about varieties of >human emanations. Later transformed and cloaked into >the Microsoft-NYPD Domain Awareness program which >pretended to be about data-gathering and infiltrating >suspected terrorist conclaves, vaunted by resucitated >HUMINT, but about, well, that's not for the inexperienced >emanator to know. >Why not wrap the phone in a couple of layers of aluminum >foil? (Although, it won't shield against audio if that's being >recorded even while an RF contact does not exist...) > Jim Bell [2]image [3]RF and Microwave Absorber - Ferrite Tiles and Foam Abso... RF absorber and microwave absorber for anechoic chambers, EMC testing and antenna pattern measurement: ferrite tiles, polyurethane foam absorber an... [4]View on www.djmelectronics... Preview by Yahoo References 1. http://www.djmelectronics.com/rf-absorber.html 2. http://www.djmelectronics.com/rf-absorber.html 3. http://www.djmelectronics.com/rf-absorber.html 4. http://www.djmelectronics.com/rf-absorber.html