[8bitsrule]

This story made me realize: I haven't seen the phrase "tin-foil hat" used much in the past couple of years. Huh.

Which reminded me of a quote:

"For a while you wondered whether the fools were pretending to be fools as some kind of deception, or whether there was a real efficient service somewhere else. Later in my fiction, I invented one. But alas the reality was the mediocrity." — Le Carre

[toyg]

David Cornwell served in MI5/MI6 in the '50s and '60s, when the game was pretty different from today. Certainly the mediocrity is still present in intelligence agencies at some level (as testified by the Manchester attack), but Snowden proved that their technical capabilities for surveillance are as good as, or even better than, a lot of people feared. This is why casually dismissing the paranoid as tinfoil-hatter is out of fashion. You will likely notice the same happening to Godwin Law right now.

[cozzyd]

The NSA can see through tin now. You must upgrade to superconducting hats.

[thepangolino]

Shhhh. Don't tell them. http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csai...

[lucb1e]

> certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified [by the helmets]

Oh, interesting!

> These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use

I mean, if you take all of the common RF spectrum and look at what is reserved for civilian use, the vast majority is not freely usable. I'm not surprised it's within licensed spectrum.

> the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities

Right.

> We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.

Riiiiight.

This went from fun project to three levels of conspiracy theory real fast.

And looking at the contents (instead of the summary/abstract) more critically, they investigated >=10kHz waves. The brain waves that I know of are in the range of 1-150Hz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_oscillation

... actually, this page is a joke, right? The more I read on the page, no way that this is serious.

[rhaps0dy]

>... actually, this page is a joke, right? The more I read on the page, no way that this is serious.

Yes, I think it's very much a joke.

[DonHopkins]

The great Tin Visionary Stewart Butterfield saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. Tin is in his blood, but nary a sheet of tin has rolled of his own production lines in over 30 years.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stewart-butterfield-epic-resi...

[jonhendry18]

It comes up plenty, but more in reference to people who believe in chemtrails and pizzagate.