Tinfoil and Counterterrorism

Intrepid reader G notes that group of MIT researchers have released the results of their empirical study of the effects of aluminum foil headgear, long favored by the paranoid community as a protective mechanism against government mind-control rays. Their conclusions are startling!

The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ''radio location'' (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.

Surely there are any number of potential communications and surveillance applications for tinfoil head coverings in the current global endeavor against practitioners of terror.

(Hey, it's Monday, what do you want?)