Tin Foil Hats Actually Make it Easier for the Government to Track Your Thoughts – Matt Soniak – The Atlantic

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Or so says “physics.”

Lets say some malevolent group — the government, powerful corporations, extraterrestrials — really is trying to read and/or control your thoughts with radio waves. Would the preferred headgear of the paranoid, a foil helmet, really keep The Man and alien overlords out of our brains?

a group of MIT students, prodded by “a desire to play with some expensive equipment,” tested the effectiveness of foil helmets at blocking various radio frequencies. Using two layers of Reynolds aluminum foil, they constructed three helmet designs, dubbed the Classical, the Fez, and the Centurion…

via Tin Foil Hats Actually Make it Easier for the Government to Track Your Thoughts – Matt Soniak – The Atlantic.

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