Ironically, their website shows “Not Secure” in my browsers when visited, and rightly so: insecure HTTP, insecure session cookies, insecure offsite JS. I hope they can be convinced to improve their electronic weapon defenses to the same level as their energy weapon defenses.
ThorShield Energy Weapon Protection Fabric
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#42If you need this, can't you just run a layer of tinfoil under your shirt?
You would want something thick enough that the barbs don't punch through. Tinfoil would punch through easily and the barb would just keep going. You need something thick and conductive.
Two layers of aluminum window screen sandwiched between some fabric might work.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why this is cool or what it would protect you from? A dress shirt maybe but who's stabbing or shooting legs?
My threat model is less concerned about intentional violence, and more about accidental injury. If I can reduce my chance of accidental death by 1% for a few hundred bucks, that would be cool, if not necessarily economically rational. Oh, I want the dress shirt too! Heck, I'd wear a helmet with a HUD if it was comfortable and socially acceptable.
Do you require vision correction, and if not, do you wear glasses anyway?
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#44FAQ needs to include: Won’t the police just shoot me if their Taser doesn’t work?
Upsell kevlar vest.
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#45FAQ needs to include: Won’t the police just shoot me if their Taser doesn’t work?
They are marketing this to police.
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#46Neat! I'd love to see the rise of a high end clothing brand centered on making clothes with kevlar and other novel materials to create a comfortable washable clothing with a higher protection factor.
Oh, like John Wick's "ballistic" suit coat?
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#47If you need this, can't you just run a layer of tinfoil under your shirt?
You would want something thick enough that the barbs don't punch through. Tinfoil would punch through easily and the barb would just keep going. You need something thick and conductive.
Shouldn't matter if it punches through so long as it maintains contact, as it should have significantly lower resistance than your body?
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#48I...isn’t this sort of focusing on the wrong thing? How many criminals storm police and military installations armed with stun guns?
Well, right now, it's being advertised to a large number of computer programmers with disposable income, on HN.
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#49Neat! I'd love to see the rise of a high end clothing brand centered on making clothes with kevlar and other novel materials to create a comfortable washable clothing with a higher protection factor.
I am at a loss as to what your threat model might be where that makes some kind of sense.
Protesting against the government, for one. Police crackdowns on protests have gone ever more aggressive over the last years, plus police has been more and more militarized.
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#50Two things:
I’m sure current body armour is resistant to tasers, as the prongs need to hit you in order to work, and if your armour is stopping a knife or a bullet, two measly little pins aren’t gonna make it.
If you want a cheap and trivially accessible alternative to this, a fencing Lame will fit the bill perfectly. It’s a metal conductor in the shape of a vest or jacket. Whilst I haven’t ever been tazed wearing one, I imagine it would handle it just fine.