Yeah, that's not going to work as a Faraday Cage. I guess you'd have to put the cellphone in the microwave, then put the microwave in the refrigerator. That's going to look weird. :)
I used to do a bunch of micro-sites -- small websites targeted around specific topics. One I did a few years back was http://gps-cell-phone-tracking.net/
I really learned a lot setting that site up, and it was one of the reasons I became such a privacy freak. Our cell phones are basically tracking devices the government monitors which we happily adorn to our bodies each day. Weird.
To get to my point, one of the questions on the site was whether your phone could be tracked, either location or having the audio monitored, without your knowing it. Location is easy -- yes. Audio was a bit weirder. Obviously you'd have to install an app, and who would want to do that?
Then I learned that cell providers will "help" governments by putting tracking code inside the auto-update of the phone. They can even push it at night and have it install without your having any knowledge at all.
As far as I know, pulling the battery still kills things, but then somebody said most phones have a dual battery to keep the memory refreshed. Somebody even said something about the possibility of "illuminating" phones from a distance and picking up audio that way. Of course, "somebody said" doesn't count for much, and with all the secrecy in place good luck figuring out what is what.
Fun stuff. Since the micro-site business didn't take off, maybe there's a future in selling tin-foil hats?
I used to do a bunch of micro-sites -- small websites targeted around specific topics. One I did a few years back was http://gps-cell-phone-tracking.net/
I really learned a lot setting that site up, and it was one of the reasons I became such a privacy freak. Our cell phones are basically tracking devices the government monitors which we happily adorn to our bodies each day. Weird.
To get to my point, one of the questions on the site was whether your phone could be tracked, either location or having the audio monitored, without your knowing it. Location is easy -- yes. Audio was a bit weirder. Obviously you'd have to install an app, and who would want to do that?
Then I learned that cell providers will "help" governments by putting tracking code inside the auto-update of the phone. They can even push it at night and have it install without your having any knowledge at all.
As far as I know, pulling the battery still kills things, but then somebody said most phones have a dual battery to keep the memory refreshed. Somebody even said something about the possibility of "illuminating" phones from a distance and picking up audio that way. Of course, "somebody said" doesn't count for much, and with all the secrecy in place good luck figuring out what is what.
Fun stuff. Since the micro-site business didn't take off, maybe there's a future in selling tin-foil hats?