[coldtea]

Tinfoil as sarcasm would have made sense if what he feared (the extra tracking) was NOT happening. You know, like we used to mock people fearing aliens reading their mind and such.

Yet, this very news proves that it DOES happen.

So not only was the sarcasm misplaced, but he is in the right. Sure, one might believe that "well, a little tracking never hurt nobody" but that's another matter altogether.

[oakwhiz]

Are you saying that my post was sarcastic? That's strange, because I wasn't being sarcastic - my post was entirely based in fact. Tinfoil, or aluminum foil, is a cheap, commonly available, easily malleable conductor that is actually a pretty good RF attenuator. Some people are unaware that antistatic bags are not always good RF attenuators. If you intend to control when a device is permitted to receive radio waves, a simple and more effective solution is to merely wrap that device in aluminum foil.

I suppose this is sort of a Poe's law[0] effect in which sarcasm mocking security as a form of paranoia, and actual advice for improving one's own security, are now indistinguishable from one another.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

[anigbrowl]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.