Want To Work Without Prying Eyes? Try Wearing a Body Sock 75
Nerval's Lobster writes The "Compubody Sock," which anyone with knitting skills can make at home, is a giant sock-hoodie-bag in which you place your laptop or tablet, along with your head and hands, giving you total privacy while freaking out anyone who happens to be sitting next to you. Designer Becky Stern told Forbes' Kashmir Hill that the Sock was meant more as commentary on privacy and device addiction; even so, considering how NSA employees reportedly drape themselves in hoods in order to thwart hidden cameras while typing in passwords, it's not outside the realm of possibility that an ultra-paranoid someone could find a practical use for a body sock. But that paranoid android better have expert knitting skills: putting together the Sock necessitates a whole lot of steps ("Purl 5, purl 2 together, purl 1, turn the work," etc.). Your other option, of course, is to simply avoid working on sensitive stuff in public.
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Ah, but there is also a privacy screen guard defeater!
Re:There's this thing called a (Score:4, Funny)
That's why I've got a trace buster buster [youtube.com]
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THNEED! Everyone NEEDS a THNEED!
Everybody needs a Thneed!
A fine thing that all people need!
The Thneed is good, the Thneed is great,
Let's hope we're not too late!
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I was hoping you were going to say Thneed.
I was disappointed.
You need a Thneed!
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That anyone can knit at home? (Score:2)
How many
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I don't see what a body sock has to do with the process in which individually separated but related items are grouped, packaged, and supplied together as one unit.
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Pshaw. Just depends on your skill. My ex probably knitted one of those in a couple of days while watching TV. She could knit a plain sweater in a couple of days or a cardigan in maybe five. Intricate patterns in the cords and great color blends. Cardigans of that quality are three hundred or more. I still, twenty-five years later have a shawlter (wrap around sweater without sleeves) she designed and knitted for me to wear in cold corporate environs.
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Knitting is awesome. Take some sheeps hair and a couple of needles and bam! Trade goods.
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Why, yes. People are normally much happier when they are at a comfortable temperature.
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Knitting is manly (Score:2)
I've knitted cozies for my collection of handguns.
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That's already too much information...
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Re:That anyone can knit at home? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought everyone on Slashdot knew Perl.
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I knit! But only during football season. That being said, I don't think I'd knit one of those.
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We're just computer operators, darn it!
Alternative plan (Score:3)
Yoga pants. Given the typical /.er most normal people would run screaming from the room, the rest will gouge their eyes out.
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Imagine ten pounds of bologna in a five-pound bag.
are there enough (Score:2)
tinfoil threads in this fabric? Otherwise radio waves could still leak through. Just asking...
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Not tinfoil per se, be it think metalic fibres might be needed. Copper or aluminum should probably suffice, but perhaps it needs to be ferromagnetic. The question is, does it need to be grounded? It seems to me, though, that a knitted antenna would broadcast so many signals out of phase with each other that it couldn't be decoded.
Why knit? (Score:1)
Why knit something when you can make something out of heavy cloth; with a simple pattern, *anyone* can put something together in a few minutes (longer if you want it to be "just so."). I made a denim hoodie jacket, complete with zipper, in junior high, for cryin' out loud.
I wore that jacket for over ten years before it wore out...
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Why knit something when you can make something out of heavy cloth; with a simple pattern, *anyone* can put something together in a few minutes
I think you just answered your own question there. Because not everyone can do it.
Of course, the fact that you did something that anybody can do but almost nobody does can be cool too.
I make stuff all the time. Just the other day I made a belt sheath that holds a pair of kitchen shears and a pair of forceps for when I'm fishing from my canoe. I made the sheath out of duct tape, which took me about five minutes. Anybody could have done it, which I think makes it a cool project. But suppose I'd sewed the
Sure... (Score:1)
If you want to look like a fucking raving lunatic.
Slow news day? (Score:2)
Bonus Points (Score:2)
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FYI,
http://www.belden.com/resource... [belden.com]
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In my post, I was referring more to the given use case and associated health and weight benefits of using copper instead of lead. Then again you'd be breathing in all the fumes from inside your laptop anyway, so not sure if that even matters for an average life-span.
Prior Art (Score:1)
From you-know-who [memecdn.com].
Ewww. (Score:3)
It had better be washable. If you catch my drift.
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Yeah, all that face sweat and lice would be horrible if it weren't.
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Not to mention the toxic combination of Cheetos and Monster energy drink belches. Thing could get nasty in a hurry.
haven't they heard of knithub.com (Score:2, Funny)
Nobody knits from scratch anymore. First you get the GoodHood Framework, spend a few days learning how it works and trying the samples. Then you realize it depends on the Backpurl and Emblazon knitting frameworks , so you Google for those and realize you can only get it in pink but you need the red version. Oh, but you can go back one point release on the GoodHood framework and then pink will work ok, even if it looks like shit.
Then you need to have Needles 2.0 to stitch it all together, but your knit
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That's what I don't get about the newer monitors and TVs that are all HI-Glare. What the fuck is the use, if you have to wait everything is pitch black before using it?
Nerval's Lobster (Score:1)
Since it's been pretty well established that Nerval's Lobster is Slashdot/Dice employee Nick Kolakowski linking to his own stuff, can we please have him post these things directly under his own name instead of pretending like he's a community member going through the approval process?
Knit if you must (Score:1)
But when I make mine it will be crochet. :-p
OMG, they're here! (Score:1)
The conservatives were right, Sharia law has infested IT!
Increases other vulnerabilities (Score:2)
Like getting your head chopped off -- no way to see it coming.
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Is that a common problem in your work-place? You must work for head-hunters. I've heard about them; one even owns slashd^# '~ & j [NO CARRIER]
Hoodies are your friends (Score:1)
And you should also wipe the keypad after entering the password so the heat sig doesn't show up, btw.
That said, I can still read your key usage by the sounds reflecting off your piano tie.
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Original link (Score:3)
Here's the original post on Sternlab [sternlab.org] (from 2008). The "Ski Mask for Eating a Sandwich" is awesome. I think I need one of those first!
wtf (Score:2, Insightful)
Not just NSA (Score:2)
LOL (Score:2)
Absolutely no visibility! (Score:2)
Great to wear if you want to mugged by a passing thug.