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Snooping Through Walls with Microwaves

denis-The-menace writes "According to an article from newscientist, scientists have devised a system to use microwave energy for surveillance. If people are speaking inside the room, any flimsy surface, such as clothing, will be vibrating. This modulates the radio beam reflected from the surface. Although the radio reflection that passes back through the wall is extremely faint, the kind of electronic extraction and signal cleaning tricks used by NASA to decode signals in space can be used to extract speech. Although, I doubt it would work in this room"

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  1. Re:Makes little difference by xaosflux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    a) buy gold
    b) hide in 50% legit 5% return businesses
    c) learn sign language
    d) study tonnes of tonnes of history of cold ware espianage
    e) never ever talk , paint a false picture to everyone including your wife/kids
    f) cover tracks and never park anywhere, unless you own the govt, or they owe you billions.

    Plus, you forgot...

    (g) Don't give away all your secrets.

    But you forgot....

    (h) ???
    (i) Profit!