Comment by kube-system
10 hours ago
Yes I have spent thousands of dollars and months testing them.
You can cut off GPS and high frequency cell spectrum pretty easily. Most cell spectrum is effectively attenuated by good quality professional RF enclosures designed for those frequencies. 2.4 ghz signals like wifi (with good quality radios) are hard to attenuate to the point where they can’t connect to other radios nearby, even with very expensive RF test enclosures.
If you’re trying to block against an unknown threat you are fucked. If someone wanted to back door a baseband they’d probably make it transmit at low speeds and low frequencies to be resistant to attenuation.
What kind of RF can travel through a few mm of metal?
If you blindly “put metal around” an antenna, most of the time, you have just created another antenna!
Go put a phone in a filing cabinet and call it. It will ring.
Jesus. That sucks. Thanks for sharing, fascinating stuff.