Newly Declassified Window Film Keeps Out Hackers, Phone Calls, EMPs

Like a tinfoil hat for your house, new technology promises to block hackers' access to your wireless transmissions—and protect against EMP attacks and explosions, to boot















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Winkler also notes that in the unlikely event of a nuclear terrorist attack, Signal Defense Security Film would help safeguard its users' electronics from the potentially devastating effects of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. Although the sensitivity of such information prevents her from providing specifics on this feature of the film, she did note that it attenuates by 35 decibels electromagnetic signals in the range of 30 megahertz to 10 gigahertz, which translates into a greater than 99 percent decrease in signal strength.



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  1. 1. Dr. Charon Stone 12:31 PM 5/22/09

    Alright, I know all about the Misty and Nebulae CIA spy satellites, but the only reference I've seen to anything code named Tempest is on the CIA.gov website in it's declassified archive. This document, a cold war piece originating from the JFK's administration Cuban Missle Crisis, has the word "tempest" within the text, but it is only mentioned once in lower case. Never as anything code named.
    As I'm a known asset to the US intel community, I am hereby telling you that though the above is true, there are classified CIA spy sattelites code named Tempest!

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