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Re:Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Th... by chaz on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:19PM (#5943530)
A Faraday box might be more fun for higher trust environments. Starting your staff meeting? Family dinner? Watching a movie? Everyone puts their phone in the Faraday box and they get it when it's over. Similar to "The Phone Stack" game, but enforced. A nicely designed box in bright colors with a padded, felt-lined interior with separators (or even chargers).
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Re:Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Th... by Amadou on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:31AM (#5944213)
If you leave your phone on and put it in a faraday cage, the battery will drain at the maximum rate as the phone goes into "find a tower" mode which is basically to broadcast at maximum power over and over trying to make contact with any towers that might be within its maximum range.
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Re:Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Th... by seremoney on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @03:09AM (#5944583)
Isn't this only the case for a CDMA network? Thought GSM didn't have this characteristic.
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