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Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by speeder on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:53AM (#12141771)
I remembered now of a church pastor I know, that was an antenna.

The story: this pastor, and only this pastor, would make wireless microphones in certain frequencies act up.

Eventually the audio team found out that somehow this particular pastor worked as an antenna for a particular frequency, matching a nearby radio transmitter, that due to its enormous size would overpower the microphone transmission and corrupt the data.

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Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by mkesper on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:39AM (#12142594)
Everybody is an antenna. Probably his size was very "well tuned" to that radio transmitter.
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Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by white-flame on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:04AM (#12142160)
One of my friends has a magnetic butt. Any time he carries a mag strip card in his back pocket, it no longer works.

I also knew somebody who had to use wind-up pocket watches, because quartz wristwatches would always skew when he wore them, but would keep time fine when removed.

Weird stuff. Who knows.

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Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by stillworks on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:02AM (#12142468)
And how about the wind-up watches ? Did they not skew :-)
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