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by oakwhiz 4660 days ago
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