Article: Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe…And the point being?
Did anyone ever mention that WEP and tunneling are a lot cheaper? Let me get this straight. Instead of using WEP, you put up an expensive wallpaper to turn the office into a microwave oven. Cool!
BAE’s anti-Wi-Fi wallpaper is made from a 0.1-millimetre-thick sheet of kapton, the same plastic used to make flexible printed circuit boards in lightweight portable gadgets like camcorders. The kapton is coated on each side with a thin film of copper.
This stuff has got to cost a fortune.
A fortune?
Near the end of the article: “The wall covering can be mass produced at relatively low cost. A square metre will cost about Ł500: peanuts to big business.”
Yikes! I don’t want to think how much it would cost to “wallpaper” my current employer’s building with this stuff.
And, they haven’t got the window-coating ready yet – so the wallpaper will stop the signal , but the un-treated windows will still pass the signal. D’oh!
Doesn’t the CIA have the outsides of it’s buildings copper-meshed, basically? I mean, seriously, is a cell-phone THAT important inside a big place of business? It seems to me, if you need a cell-phone that much, get a call-forwarding service so you could route it to your work number (and extension). Or am I just out of the loop and they don’t have services like that for corporate people that want them?
If it were me, I’d just use some fun copper wiring and brush off the people trying to use their cell-phones inside. Really, most of the people using the cell-phone are going to be loud on it anyway (as I remember being said in a PC Mag article awhile back..was that your’s, John?), so they should just step outside, tough beans.