angrymnk wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
I never said that it had to be the size of the house, but you haven't explained how a room sized cage will help you either. I assume you don't really know either since you've twice avoided actually giving a plausible scenario.
Huh? Three times is the charm? I am not sure hoe how can anyone not ser the benefit of cells not workin in one specific room..
I think that's an extreme response with minimal gains. The point that some of us are trying to make here is that you have to balance what you are securing versus the effort to do so. Faraday cage being a perfect example. Ok. So you keep your cell phone in the cage when you are home so it can't be hacked or used as a remote microphone, or whatever. But... Um... If I'm spying on you and I know your cell phone stops pinging once it's in your house, then I know where you are just as I know where you are when your cell phone *isn't* in a cage in your home. You can't actually use the phone while it's there, and I can easily use some other means to listen in on the stationary location you've politely informed me about.
If someone's actually doing that, of course. Paranoia and whatnot. But... Um. You could also just turn off the phone and get the exact same results. You now, for folks who just have a normal amount of concern that their cell phone might be listening in on them, or being used remotely in some way they don't like. But the biggest surveillance risk to a cell phone is that it's a device that constantly reports its position to a third party device (whole set of them) and you carry it around with you all day long. So if I want to know where you go every day, I don't need to hack your phone. I just get the information from the cell towers. You're literally obsessing on the least significant privacy risk while ignoring the much bigger one. If some nefarious government agency wants to spy on me in my home, they can do that no matter what I do with my cell phone, or how many Faraday cages I build (they don't block sound, only rf).
I'm not saying just toss out any concept of privacy, but I do think that prioritizing things a bit more intelligently would be helpful.