From fd6cf8c12cc175374971c4edea7a08d700d49d37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 16:37:17 -0400 Subject: Revert "move wiki into subfolder" This reverts commit a3efc2575f311341ba05bdb532b7c5cb019b8469. --- Shielding.mdwn | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tech_Savvy.mdwn | 1 + Technical_Resources.mdwn | 3 +++ index.mdwn | 7 +++++++ wiki/Shielding.mdwn | 37 ------------------------------------- wiki/Tech_Savvy.mdwn | 1 - wiki/Technical_Resources.mdwn | 3 --- wiki/index.mdwn | 7 ------- 8 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Shielding.mdwn create mode 100644 Tech_Savvy.mdwn create mode 100644 Technical_Resources.mdwn create mode 100644 index.mdwn delete mode 100644 wiki/Shielding.mdwn delete mode 100644 wiki/Tech_Savvy.mdwn delete mode 100644 wiki/Technical_Resources.mdwn delete mode 100644 wiki/index.mdwn diff --git a/Shielding.mdwn b/Shielding.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88a379d --- /dev/null +++ b/Shielding.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Shielding is material which protects an area from electric or magnetic fields. + +Some people shield spaces to prevent advanced hacking. Others feel weapons or surveillance systems are targeting them. Others feel something is communicating with their body or brain. + +Please share your shielding projects. It can inspire others and help us collaborate. + +There are three primary ways in which things can reach or affect your safe space. One or all of these may be affecting you: + +* Electric fields and high-frequency electromagnetic radiation + + Common forms include light and microwaves. Most information, nowadays, is sent via high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. They are blocked by covering an area in continuous conductive material, with no holes or gaps of any sort, not even seams. Spaces shielded in this way are used industrially to protect sensitive equipment. + + EMC Consulting published a paper on shielding a room with aluminum foil at http://www.emcconsultinginc.com/docs/foilroom_full.rep.pdf . They found that a single layer of foil is very effective, but that the tiny seams between the foil layers create a lot of leakage by increasing the overall impedance of the structure. Following is my current plan for shielding a room with aluminum foil: + + 1. Construct a frame that is solid enough for you to provide a lot of pressure at the edges of the foil layers with harming the frame. + 2. DO NOT purchase non-stick aluminum foil. It is coated in a way that will prevent it from connecting to the other layers. + 3. Secure the foil to the frame in long single strips, using glue, staples, or tape. As few seams, folds, and bends are desired as possible -- use as large sheets as manageable, keeping them completely smooth, completely flat. + The shiny side of the foil will make a better connection than the dull side, and should be placed outwards for the first layer. Create the first layer in spaced strips, leaving room between each strip for another strip to be placed over to connect them. Then place the connecting strips, shiny side inwards, such that the shiny sides of the foil mate at the seams. Be sure to allow no glue between these seams. Close the seams by pressuring tape very tightly, to ensure there are no tiny gaps, or by using staples which are placed very close together. + A simple door consists of a small subsection of frame which is covered in foil and may be pressed tightly against an opening, and simply held in place by pressure. More advanced doors may be purchased from various sources. + + Test your room by seeing if your cell phone works in there, or if you can get wifi. If either of these function, you definitely need to close any small gaps, or make another space or another layer inside the one you just made. + +* Magnetic fields and low-frequency electromagnetic radiation + + A common form is AC power. Shielding from these signals is more difficulty and may involve a magnetic metal such as iron or steel. Researchers use strong magnetically shielded rooms to study the magnetic fields produced by the human brain, but in general it is more common to use and study the electric fields. + + On Jeremy Radlow's old page, he mentioned the approach of mixing iron filings with paint in order to provide shielding which would include some protection against magnetic fields. I might imagine alternating layers of such paint with strong electric field shielding between them. + +* Physical vibrations + + Common forms are sound, ultrasound, projectiles, earthquakes. These are blocked as sound would be. My personal experience is that building layers of electric and magnetic shielding ends up also providing a lot of sound shielding, inadvertently. + +All of these transmission mediums share the attribute that high frequencies can store a lot of data and be directed very precisely, but cannot penetrate through a lot of material, whereas low frequencies cannot hold a lot of data, cannot be pointed or directed very well at all, but also will travel through most things. We commonly use the "sweet spots" of medium-range frequencies that can be both distant and precise in order to transmit information already -- for example microwaves, light, and sound. + +To learn more, pursue classes in physics, electronics engineering, and electromagnetic compatibility. Classes, both free and paid, may be found around in the internet (links?). Please do study these things, get involved for the long haul, and share your work and education. Otherwise how will we move forward? + +Although gasses, particle radiation, and nanomachines could also enter a secure space, these are not the problems to begin looking for. First secure against things which are reasonable threats. Then worry about obscure things, which are much, much harder to make use of. diff --git a/Tech_Savvy.mdwn b/Tech_Savvy.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e2c896 --- /dev/null +++ b/Tech_Savvy.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +* [litelog](https://github.com/gmkarl/litelog) is a WIP system for reliably logging data. Fork, fix bugs, contribute, add features, write a logger in a new language ... diff --git a/Technical_Resources.mdwn b/Technical_Resources.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7d5ed9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Technical_Resources.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Resources for the experienced and dauntless are at [[Tech Savvy]] + +Basic information on [[Shielding]] diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8bafc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I create this site to help us share resources. Nobody is in charge. + +As many may arrive confused, please keep entrances as simple as possible. + +This is a wiki, which anybody is free to edit, copy, or store. Please share here. + +[[Technical Resources]] diff --git a/wiki/Shielding.mdwn b/wiki/Shielding.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 88a379d..0000000 --- a/wiki/Shielding.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -Shielding is material which protects an area from electric or magnetic fields. - -Some people shield spaces to prevent advanced hacking. Others feel weapons or surveillance systems are targeting them. Others feel something is communicating with their body or brain. - -Please share your shielding projects. It can inspire others and help us collaborate. - -There are three primary ways in which things can reach or affect your safe space. One or all of these may be affecting you: - -* Electric fields and high-frequency electromagnetic radiation - - Common forms include light and microwaves. Most information, nowadays, is sent via high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. They are blocked by covering an area in continuous conductive material, with no holes or gaps of any sort, not even seams. Spaces shielded in this way are used industrially to protect sensitive equipment. - - EMC Consulting published a paper on shielding a room with aluminum foil at http://www.emcconsultinginc.com/docs/foilroom_full.rep.pdf . They found that a single layer of foil is very effective, but that the tiny seams between the foil layers create a lot of leakage by increasing the overall impedance of the structure. Following is my current plan for shielding a room with aluminum foil: - - 1. Construct a frame that is solid enough for you to provide a lot of pressure at the edges of the foil layers with harming the frame. - 2. DO NOT purchase non-stick aluminum foil. It is coated in a way that will prevent it from connecting to the other layers. - 3. Secure the foil to the frame in long single strips, using glue, staples, or tape. As few seams, folds, and bends are desired as possible -- use as large sheets as manageable, keeping them completely smooth, completely flat. - The shiny side of the foil will make a better connection than the dull side, and should be placed outwards for the first layer. Create the first layer in spaced strips, leaving room between each strip for another strip to be placed over to connect them. Then place the connecting strips, shiny side inwards, such that the shiny sides of the foil mate at the seams. Be sure to allow no glue between these seams. Close the seams by pressuring tape very tightly, to ensure there are no tiny gaps, or by using staples which are placed very close together. - A simple door consists of a small subsection of frame which is covered in foil and may be pressed tightly against an opening, and simply held in place by pressure. More advanced doors may be purchased from various sources. - - Test your room by seeing if your cell phone works in there, or if you can get wifi. If either of these function, you definitely need to close any small gaps, or make another space or another layer inside the one you just made. - -* Magnetic fields and low-frequency electromagnetic radiation - - A common form is AC power. Shielding from these signals is more difficulty and may involve a magnetic metal such as iron or steel. Researchers use strong magnetically shielded rooms to study the magnetic fields produced by the human brain, but in general it is more common to use and study the electric fields. - - On Jeremy Radlow's old page, he mentioned the approach of mixing iron filings with paint in order to provide shielding which would include some protection against magnetic fields. I might imagine alternating layers of such paint with strong electric field shielding between them. - -* Physical vibrations - - Common forms are sound, ultrasound, projectiles, earthquakes. These are blocked as sound would be. My personal experience is that building layers of electric and magnetic shielding ends up also providing a lot of sound shielding, inadvertently. - -All of these transmission mediums share the attribute that high frequencies can store a lot of data and be directed very precisely, but cannot penetrate through a lot of material, whereas low frequencies cannot hold a lot of data, cannot be pointed or directed very well at all, but also will travel through most things. We commonly use the "sweet spots" of medium-range frequencies that can be both distant and precise in order to transmit information already -- for example microwaves, light, and sound. - -To learn more, pursue classes in physics, electronics engineering, and electromagnetic compatibility. Classes, both free and paid, may be found around in the internet (links?). Please do study these things, get involved for the long haul, and share your work and education. Otherwise how will we move forward? - -Although gasses, particle radiation, and nanomachines could also enter a secure space, these are not the problems to begin looking for. First secure against things which are reasonable threats. Then worry about obscure things, which are much, much harder to make use of. diff --git a/wiki/Tech_Savvy.mdwn b/wiki/Tech_Savvy.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 5e2c896..0000000 --- a/wiki/Tech_Savvy.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -* [litelog](https://github.com/gmkarl/litelog) is a WIP system for reliably logging data. Fork, fix bugs, contribute, add features, write a logger in a new language ... diff --git a/wiki/Technical_Resources.mdwn b/wiki/Technical_Resources.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f7d5ed9..0000000 --- a/wiki/Technical_Resources.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -Resources for the experienced and dauntless are at [[Tech Savvy]] - -Basic information on [[Shielding]] diff --git a/wiki/index.mdwn b/wiki/index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index c8bafc2..0000000 --- a/wiki/index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -I create this site to help us share resources. Nobody is in charge. - -As many may arrive confused, please keep entrances as simple as possible. - -This is a wiki, which anybody is free to edit, copy, or store. Please share here. - -[[Technical Resources]] -- cgit v1.2.3