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ssl-3 • yesterday at 7:22 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Higher frequencies need smaller holes to attenuate as effectively.

So let's make the holes smaller. We want to permit nanometer-wave light to pass while blocking centimeter-wave RF. I'm not seeing a particularly difficult engineering challenge here. :)

> You'd likely be better off with aluminum foil than the door.

Did you think this through at all? Running away and hiding while wearing opaque aluminum foil blinders is kind of a unilateral non-starter.

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Anyway, we also have this: Window film. Let's look at an example.

3M Thinsulate Climate Control 75 is a self-adhesive film that blocks greater than 99% of RF from 100MHz to 4.5GHz[1], which I might suggest is pretty good for protecting the ol' eyeballs from a brief encounter with the blindness machine.

The combination of it and a single pane of window glass provides 74% visible light transmission[2]. I further suggest that this allows plenty of light with which to safely move around.

[1]: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1704860O/electromagnetic...

[2]: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1435912O/product-bulleti...


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AlotOfReading • yesterday at 7:38 PM

You might note that the active denial system is 95 GHz, not 4.5 GHz.

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