Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block tracking by employer

Re:Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block track... by ajross on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:22PM (#15820582)

Yeah, the guy was clever but clearly cheating and he deserves to be fired. Now, about that reporter:

> Aluminum is not a great conductor—it heats up when a lot of power is pushed through it—so a snack bag would potentially melt if it was used to try to block a strong radio signal from inside.

Uh... what? I mean, I guess, if you're operating a tracking radar or long distance microwave transmitter inside that snack bag, sure. But a LTE radio with a GPS? Are you serious?

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Re:Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block track... by mirimir on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:55PM (#15821104)

The guy wasn't so clever, because regularly missing location data fosters suspicion. About the reporter, I was also struck by the technical cluelessness. For example, there's no need to ground Faraday cages.

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Re:Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block track... by Neeek on Thursday November 30, 2017 @10:25PM (#15821674)

Aren't power lines aluminium?

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Re:Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block track... by sandl on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:10AM (#15822461)

Indeed, they often consist of aluminium for conductivity and steel for stability.

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Re:Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block track... by gruez on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:23PM (#15820944)

that, and i think the reporter is conflating two similar sounding things he learned in science class: conductivity (electricity) and radio waves (electromagnetic waves).

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