[117283] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Mon Aug 30 21:13:49 1999
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:55:37 -0400
To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>, David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
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Perhaps useless ancedote: I just carried some waterford crystal goblets
back from Ireland through n-number of airport security checkpoints. They
seemed pretty darn opaque on the xray screens.
So just buy a lot of crystal and surround yerself...
-Declan
At 16:06 8/30/1999 -0400, Sunder wrote:
>Hmmm, does it also help tempest shielding? If so where does one obtain leaded
>crystal glass, say suitable for a 14" LCD monitor again? :)
>
>David Honig wrote:
>>
>> At 10:25 PM 8/27/99 -0500, Sean Roach wrote:
>> >Interesting story about this. My grandmother was detained for carrying
>> >lead crystal into the United States. Seems that both leaded glass, at
>> >least the good stuff, and plastic explosives both show up as a cloudy area
>> >on an x-ray. They are trained to recognize pieces and hints,
>>
>> No; they simply can't see what's inside leaded crystal.
