Comments on: Newest defense against drone strikes: Special hoodies?

By: single stack

single stack — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:25:22 +0000

Maybe my observation here is wrong, but if it’s accurate, then there’s no advantage of having a pouch over turning the phone off when you aren’t using it, because the pouch is going to shield the phone from receiving signals as well as sending them.

Cell phones can be tracked even when they’re turned off and when they can’t get a signal. The only way to prevent it is to remove the battery.

By: davidk

davidk — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:24:55 +0000

I want the one that makes you look like a noble Afghan woman gathering fire wood in the dark.

BL@KBIRD on January 20, 2013 at 7:17 PM

I want a portable SAM site.

By: BL@KBIRD

BL@KBIRD — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:17:17 +0000

I want the one that makes you look like a noble Afghan woman gathering fire wood in the dark.

By: DavidW

DavidW — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:10:39 +0000

Something about Trayvon.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:34:06 +0000

He also designed a pouch for cell phones that shields them from trackers by blocking the radio signals the phone emits.

Maybe some phones are different, but I have a service where coverage is really spotty in an area where I work frequently. If the phone doesn’t pick up reception, then it seems to shut down looking for it for a period of time. There has often been occasions where I have to turn it off and on again to pull up reception.

Maybe my observation here is wrong, but if it’s accurate, then there’s no advantage of having a pouch over turning the phone off when you aren’t using it, because the pouch is going to shield the phone from receiving signals as well as sending them.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:22:25 +0000

Operator: Perp acquired, no distinguishing features … wait, wait, … perp has donned heat deflecting hoodie. Be on the lookout for perp wearing heat deflecting hoodie.

LEO: Roger, the idiot is walking towards me as we speak.

By: FloatingRock

FloatingRock — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:13:20 +0000

Funny how all our awesome tech and tactics pretty much failed in Afghanistan. We will walk away (it is written) and the result will be effectively nothing, strategically.

CorporatePiggy on January 20, 2013 at 5:42 PM

They hide in plain sight by blending in with the civilian population, presumably. Having an oddly low heat signature would only draw unwanted attention to them.

By: FloatingRock

FloatingRock — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:46:45 +0000

Probably the best inexpensive way to reduce your heat signature is to design/invent some sort of cooling suit, which doesn’t have to be as fancy as those worn by astronauts, covered by a vapor barrier over that followed by a suitably thick layer of insulation. Then you have to have a power source and a method to either store or exhaust the heat as surreptitiously as possible.

By: CorporatePiggy

CorporatePiggy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:42:23 +0000

There’s always a realist to spoil a fantasy thread in progress.

platypus on January 20, 2013 at 5:36 PM

Funny how all our awesome tech and tactics pretty much failed in Afghanistan. We will walk away (it is written) and the result will be effectively nothing, strategically.

By: platypus

platypus — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:36:01 +0000

I’m skeptical, the heat has to go somewhere, generally up and out, unless there is something actively intercepting it and exhausting it elsewhere. I’d have to see tests that compare these cloths to regular clothing of similar insulative value before I’ll believe it.

FloatingRock on January 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM

There’s always a realist to spoil a fantasy thread in progress.