Paint Provides Network Protection

thefickler writes "Forget WEP and WPA; I'm switching over to the EM-SEC Coating System, a recently announced paint developed by EM-SEC Technologies that acts as an electromagnetic fortress, allowing a wireless network to be contained within painted walls without fear of someone tapping in or hacking wireless networks. The EM-SEC Coating System is clearly the most secure option aside from stringing out the CAT5, and can be safely used to protect wireless networks in business and government facilities."

Comments

Blocking EM eh...

[StuartFreeman]

I hope no one ever wants to use a cell phone in your house.

Re:Blocking EM eh...

[ip_fired]

I hope nobody has windows (the physical, see-through kind, not the operating system)...

Re:Blocking EM eh...

[britneys 9th husband]

I hope no one ever wants to use a cell phone in your house. This paint should be mandatory for all movie theaters and restaurants.

Re:Blocking EM eh...

[Dun Malg]

Cell phones are all lower frequency
From 800 MHz to 1.9 GHz
(and something about 450MHz, but that isn't common)

Don't you think they can limit their product to 2.4 GHz +/- 500 MHz? No. That's hard enough to do with a mechanical Faraday type arrangement, much less paint. Don't you think it'd be better to understand the physics of EM radiation before you make silly presumptive comments?

Just run the damn cable.

[Original Replica]

Anyone who needs their network to be more than casually "safe" needs to run cat5. Running some cable is too much of a problem, but repainting your house and installing some specialty doors and windows is somehow easier?

Typical attempt to get government to spend oodles

[gjuk]

Governments have a great habit of wasting money by trying to dot every 'i' and cross every 't'. Of course, you can never achieve perfection, but their endless quest does have the effect of each extra step costing enormous amounts of extra money with minimal incremental benefit.

In this case: WPA (and many other layers of encryption) = free. Painting a building with special paint = £$massive.

What's scary is that someone from a government department will mandate this kind of tosh - and suddenly every government building (including leisure centres) will have to have it.

Of course, the irony is that - once they get paint like this, people will feel overly secure - reduce the more sensible types of encryption - and then leave the loading bay doors open, right next to a wireless repeater, pouring forth their unencrypted secrets.

Re:yes, no, maybe ...

[Dun Malg]

Do you think it is 'cool' when you have a problem and your doctor is notified via SMS while they're watching a movie in a cinema or having dinner in a restaurant that uses this uber-paint? You know, if the tired old "what if your doctor blah blah blah" is the only thing anyone can ever come up with against cell blocking, then I say who the fuck cares? There's generally nothing one doctor can do in an emergency that another can't, and in those very rare cases where there is, then those doctors need to stay out of EM blocked places, 'kay? The "doctor getting an SMS" case is already such an extreme outlier that it really has no business dictating policy that affects everyone. Go ahead, tell me you hope my mother has a terrible cheese-grater accident and needs the services of the one and only "grated face restoration" expert, but that he's watching the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in a theater covered with this EM paint. I'm willing to take that billion to one chance.