MIT scientists wear tinfoil hats

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PIRATENEWS

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:01 AM

CONSUMER ALERT

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On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets:
An Empirical Study

1: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, MIT.
2: Media Laboratory, MIT.

Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.

Results

For all helmets, we noticed a 30 db amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz, regardless of the position of the antenna on the cranium. In addition, all helmets exhibited a marked 20 db attenuation at around 1.5 Ghz.

Conclusion

The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ''radio location'' (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

First Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent for the Pentagon, and saying "So what if 9/11 was an Inside Job and JFK was shot by the CIA?" And now this. If you can't trust the MIT Military Industrial Media Complex, who can you trust?

You can trust PNTV's electrical engineering expertise! The reason these foiled hats amplified the GHz is because they were not grounded, as required for Faraday Cages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_Cage

Otherwise they act exactly like an aluminum FM TV antenna, which has ungrounded individual Director and Reflector elements (ie ungrounded Foil Hat) which re-radiate, amplify and redirect the signal into the Driven element (ie your skull). But I guess MIT engineering students don't know how to buy a TV antenna at Walmart.
www.starkelectronic.com/fm.htm
www.ac6v.com/antprojects.htm
www.arrl.org/tis/info/Yagi-V.html

Military, aviation and broadcast industries warn their workers to beware RF Burns:

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www.rfsafetysolutions.com/rf_safety_signs.htm

Why and where do shocks and burns occur?

A shock or an RF burn occurs when you come into contact with either an RF radiator or a re-radiator. RF radiators are usually some type of antenna. Many antenna designs cause RF current to flow in their metallic components which in turn is radiated into space. Touch one of these surfaces and the energy flows through your body to ground.

Similarly, the same thing can happen if you touch a re-radiator. Any ungrounded, conductive (usually metal) object that is in the field of a strong RF source can be illuminated by the RF field and re-radiate the energy back into space.

It is often very difficult to make a good RF ground so objects that appear to be well grounded are often "floating." For example, the U.S. Navy goes to great lengths to add copper straps to the

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FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:30 AM

Bwhahahaha, that's hi-larious...
Somebody down at MIT was smokin something in the first place to come up with that idiocy.

What a waste of time and money

They'd have done better studying the effectiveness of Faraday Cage shielding as a defense against both harmful EM radiations as well as annoying nosy bastards, as far as I know it even works against the new and upgraded TEMPEST readers - not that they need em with every ISP just tripping over themselves to sell your personal info to dataminers, who then sell it to the Feds, as well as any other little shithead credit-thief with a vendors license.

Ain't it nice that they demand so much info from you to 'prove' your identity, then turn and sell it to the thieves while blaming YOU for not protecting it ?

How asinine, respecting privacy in the first place woulda ended THAT circlejerk before it even started.

We've gotten some stuff already in production, shielded wallets and the like, and are currently working on quick, mobile shielding kind of like cubicle dividers which can be moved into place to prevent various forms of electronic eavesdropping for corporate meetings and the like - and it seems like in concept (they're not ready just yet) they're also gonna be a big hit with intelligence agencies, ain't that a laugh ?

There's also a vehicular based HERF projector, but we've been extremely reluctant to go forward with that cause of liability issues and not wanting it in the hands of the abusive nazi goon squad that the police have become.

Too bad, that, cause *IF* the police could be in any way trusted with it, that would be an end to the high speed chase, one shot and the target cars electronic ignition system would take a dump and leave the vehicle instantly disabled with little to no harm done - but cops being cops would point it at some protestors house and fire it over and over just to be jackasses.

RF-shielded shopping bags have been selling pretty good as well, ever since retailers started sneaking RFID chips into everydamnedthing.

The best seller right now though happens to be the SCRAMchip, which is nothing more than a 512mb USB Flashdrive with a button on it - on top of the chip is a small ampule of corrosive, and on the bottom of the button is a strong, sharp pin, which when squeezed, physically wrecks the chip and punctures the ampule to finish the job.

Those little bastards have been selling like hotcakes recently, to paranoids, corpies and no doubt some alphabet agencies too, which'll probably try soon to have em outlawed for anyone ELSE to use....

MIT is way behind the curve on this kind of thing, prolly cause it's just plain outside the scope of what their rigid little public schooled minds can accept - but that don't mean everyone is, not by a long shot.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

MAL4PREZ

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:57 PM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
What a waste of time and money
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MIT is way behind the curve on this kind of thing, prolly cause it's just plain outside the scope of what their rigid little public schooled minds can accept

Um... you're not really taking this thing seriously, are you? Really?

I suggest you google this: MIT hacks. While this "tin hat research" doesn't quite qualify as a hack, (it's not anonymous) it's clearly in a same vein.

Rigid little minds do occasionally have a sense of humor. Unlike some people...

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FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:57 PM

Take college geeks seriously ?

Now *that* would be crazy, wouldn't it ?

I like mocking MIT tho, it's a long story.

-F

RUE

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:07 PM

I have an aluminum collander. I've often worn that at home just on GPs and it was way handier than foil. I wonder how it would test out.

(NOT !!! JUST KIDDING !!! All my collanders are stainless steel and enamel ! )

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OLDENGLANDDRY

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:12 PM

PN, remind us again which one are you supposed to be? Pinky or the Brain?

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:06 AM

*Brain Voice*

I shall not be mocked, by the microcephalous hordes of common banality...

I'll be in my bunk.

-F

MAL4PREZ

Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I like mocking MIT tho, it's a long story.

Mock away! Just please don't encourage PN...

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