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by tablespoon 1656 days ago
> Tinfoil hat on - has anyone considered how suspicious that only the commercial products worked, maybe the post is just a very clever shill for those products?

Not really, tinfoil actually worked, but it was apparently too difficult to get right:

> In my experiments, I found I could sometimes achieve approximately 90 dB attenuation by carefully wrapping the generator in foil and double folding the seams on all sides, which is quite good (comparable to commercial pouches).

This actually matches my experience with a GPS logger. It only had an on/off switch and I wanted to download the track from my trip without getting points from the download location at the end. IIRC, it was still able to get fixes even wrapped in tin foil.