What material are they using that creates the Faraday cage effect?
I'd wager a wire mesh.
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#13Um, what is the use of a shield that blocks signals from going to your cellphone? What is the value of a cellphone inside such a shield? You can never take it out of the shield, and you can never use it.
> You can never take it out of the shield
Why would you arrive at such an absurd conclusion? The pouch provides control of when you are tracked.
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#14If you're going to keep your phone in a Faraday cage pouch, why not simply turn it off?
Won't "Airplane Mode" prevent phone from radiating any active signal?
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#15There's one potential issue with this in that all electronic devices these days can store data. It may not be able to transmit while in the pouch, but there's no reason it could store and forward when you next come into rage of a wifi station. We already know malware exists for mobile devices; there's no reason a 0-day exploit can't be implanted to do just that.
Besides, it's not just your phone that could be transmitting signals. Whether accidentally or not, pretty much any gadget sophisticated enough to pick up audio may also be transmitting :
http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1le3if/so_i_discover...
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#16If you're going to keep your phone in a Faraday cage pouch, why not simply turn it off?
I can easily verify my phone is in a pouch, but I can't easily verify if my phone is really off.
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#17If the pouch doesn't work as intended and the phone still has a very weak connection to the tower, the phone will transmit at maximum power, which will just eat through the battery life when sending and receiving data. I can't see this becoming successful if the pouch has this issue.
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#19There's one potential issue with this in that all electronic devices these days can store data. It may not be able to transmit while in the pouch, but there's no reason it could store and forward when you next come into rage of a wifi station. We already know malware exists for mobile devices; there's no reason a 0-day exploit can't be implanted to do just that. Besides, it's not just your phone that could be transmi…
Store and forward what? The only thing I'd want to prevent my phone from beaming to the mothership is my location. If your phone is inside this Faraday shield then it can't get a GPS location to store.
Edit: microphone will still work inside pouch
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#20What material are they using that creates the Faraday cage effect?
A conductive cloth will give the Faraday cage effect.