From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:53:39 +0800
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>
Subject: Re: Stealth Buildings Was Re: "X-Ray Gun" for imperceptible searches
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At 09:08 PM 8/13/96 -0400, Alan Horowitz wrote:
>> If foil or metal mesh would block it, then many recently built houses
>> would be already set.  Usually that 1/2 - 1 inch styrofoam used 
>> on almost all exterior walls has a reflective layer of foil to help
>> keep the heat/cold out.

>Take a course in Tempest practices.  Casual residential practice 
>implemented by construction workers do not a vault make.

The context of the discussion wasn't TEMPEST (as you say,
it's not enough for that), but new high-frequency hand-held radar imaging,
which ostensibly uses radio emissions from human skin or some technique
to create images.  Foil-backed insulation ought to do a good job
stopping that, as well as making infared snooping less useful.

Now, the police _claim_ that the product that lets you see the
shape of objects under people's clothes has the resolution to find
guns and knives and non-naughty-bits of human flesh, but not enough
to let those dirty-minded privacy-invaders leer at their victims.  Uh huh.
At least they probably don't come with printers or data links,
so they'll just have to leer at the screen and not save and distribute
copies....  Somebody ought to complain to Phyllis Schlafly about this!

[less serious material follows:]
[Not only will you need the tinfoil lining to your hat, you'll have
to get some metallic-lined underwear to avoid being entrapped into
aiding and abetting police pornographers.  Maybe Erik's gold-lame' suggestion
will catch on, at least here in San Francisco....]

#			Thanks;  Bill
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