Sunday, December 2, 2012

Cell Phone in Faraday Bag! Why?

As we test tools and technology in our ITDF 2320 course, we never know what information we can discover.  This week, we've tested the cell phone protection by placing them in Faraday bag and multilayer of antistatic bags. 

To our surprise, even though the Faraday bag work fairly well in some cases and not at all in others, in all cases the mesh on the Faraday bag interacted with the smart phone screen.  In one case, the movement of the bag over the screen caused the email client to open and to check one of the emails to be checked.  In most cases, just random movement was noticeable as the phone moved around in the bag. 

It might be strange to call a Faraday bag a protection mechanism when it causes more changes than just placing the phone in airplane mode and carrying it in a paper bag.

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