Can This Material Protect Your Home From The NSA, Electromagnetic Radiation and EMP Attacks?By Kevin Samson Various solutions have been offered about how to protect your privacy while connected to the Internet or when using your mobile phone, but one new product holds the potential to protect you at the source: your home. Its not quite tinfoil but it does claim to offer a physical shield against surveillance and attack. Conductive Composites is a company based in Utah (home of the NSAs mega data center interestingly), which makes small cases and enclosures for shielding electronics. The company claims that their lightweight material made by layering nickel on carbon could be scaled up and essentially turn your entire home into a Faraday cage capable of blocking efforts at snooping, while also offering protection from electromagnetic radiation and EMP attacks. As Defense One explains, Faraday cages are in fact routinely used by the military and governments to secure their own sensitive locations: Today, Faraday cages are all over the place. In 2013, as the College of Cardinals convened to elect a new Pope, the Vaticans Sistine Chapel was converted into a Faraday cage so that news of the election couldnt leak out, no matter how hard the paparazzi tried, and how eager the cardinals were to tweet the proceedings. The military also uses Faraday cages for secure communications: Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities or SCIFs are Faraday cages. Youll need to be in one to access the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System, or JWICS, the Defense Departments top-secretinternet. The ongoing threat from EMP attacks, whether man-made or natural, is an additional concern that has become more grave as our society is now fundamentally dependent on computer systems. Lightning strikes and other large electromagnetic pulse eventssuch as, say, a high-altitude nuclear explosion or geomagnetic storms caused by solar winds on a larger scalecan destroy electrical and electronic systems, inducing currents in conductors within them and overloading them. Just as generators create electricity by passing a wire through a magnetic field, a strong electromagnetic wave can create current within anything conductive it passes through. (Source) A lightweight shielding material that is both flexible and scalable could be a key solution for those who wish to have the same level of security as our government and military. A third area, which still remains somewhat controversial to the average person, is the health hazard of WiFi and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Here, too, a flexible material that contains the properties of a Faraday cage could offer transportable protection for those who choose to shield themselves from pervasive signals. The Conductive Composites website does show commercial-level production, but it remains to be seen how easy it will be for individuals to obtain these products and at what cost. Interestingly, the companys product page also lists paints, sealants, adhesives, concrete and wall paper, which suggests other protective applications. This technology appears to be a positive step toward empowering those who have educated themselves about potential threats. Perhaps the largest hurdle, however, is to keep this type of technology legal. We have seen governments assert that the mere act of encryption should be made illegal; protecting yourself from drone surveillance has led to arrests; and sidestepping economic surveillance through technology such as Bitcoin is being viewed as potentially funding terrorism. However, we also have learned that once technology is invented, those who demand freedom will always find a way to use it for their benefit. H/T: ZenGardner.com Kevin Samson writes for selfnewsPost.com and TechSwarm.com They already have lead lined sheetrock. Maybe this stuff can perform better without the weight. Reminder lead is toxic and extremely heavy. A strong EMP can penetrate a shield once the shield is saturated the magnetic/electric field will appear on the shielded side. Cant you ground it? Sure you can ground it and in general any type of shield works best if grounded. Think of a shield like a current carrying wire the wire has only so much amperage capacity; if you go over that capacity things heat up and the wire will eventually melt. So once a shields capacity is reached the EMF will go outside the shield. A note about lead it is NOT very good for shielding magnetic/electric fields it is good at shielding particles. Copper also is not that great for shielding. What is best for shielding is soft iron material a fine mesh screen made of such material would work very well. There are metals that are paramagnetic and diamagnetic, as well as soft iron and ferrite. Layers of different kinds of metals might actually work better. Problem is that not all wavelengths are trivially easy to block in windows or even doors. Think of cracks or pinholes in an old cameras baffle. What about aluminum sheet panels, .060 in. 4896 sheets? Would that do anything ? Really? Perhaps you better tell that to the literally millions of miles of Aluminum electrical cabling used through out the globe! Pretty sure thats wrong. ROFLMFAO!! I was going to suggest to Dr. No that he go ahead and grab on to those two aluminum wires coming into the back of his electrical panel. ;-} oochiwawa that smarts! 