Designers create a Faraday-cage cloak to foil NSA, other spies

  • 16 June 2014
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It may look like Gandalf's Snuggie, but function follows the form.

by Casey Johnston - June 16 2014
 
 
 


The Amazing Monochrome Signal-Blocking Dreamcoat (or so we would have named it).
 
Storing phones in odd places has become a favorite practice of those afraid of spies infiltrating their devices. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden famously asked visitors in Hong Kong to stash their phones in a refrigerator. And it's not an unfounded fear: it is theoretically possible for even a phone that is powered off to be actively listening.
 
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