Paint protects Wi-Fi signal

Apply this paint to your walls to keep neighbors off your wireless network.

Wireless security and encryption systems are fraught with problems and insecurity, and other methods to restrict your signal to a small area are cumbersome at best.

Enter a new solution: Anti-Wi-Fi paint.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Anti-wi-fi paint offers security

The idea is simple: Use a special paint on walls where you don’t want wireless to pass through (say the exterior of your house). The secret is mixing aluminum-iron oxide particles in with the paint. The metal particles resonate at the same frequency as Wi-Fi and other radio waves, so signals can’t pass through the thin layer of pigment. Outsiders would simply be unable to access your wireless network, just as you, inside the house, won’t be able to interlope on anything beamed on the outside.

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Yeah, and block off your cordless phone signal outside the house as well. Very smart.

Its like that joke where a moulvi told this guy that keeping a dog at home keeps the "farishta's" out. So the guy replies: "malaikul maut bhi tho aik farishta hee hai na!!!!"

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^ I know it's a joke but what that maulvi meant was that dog keeps "rehmat kay farishtay" away. :)

Anyhow, unless you work for ISI, you shouldn't be this paranoid. :)

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securing wth a code is easier no? who wud go and paint the whole house with sum "special paint" jst to protect the signals?

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^ people who use the code 'abcd1234' for starters

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good stuff

Wifi is 90% hackable!

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Don't Pakistani homes pretty much block wi-fi? They are made of bricks and bricks aren't good for wi-fi.

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Two clicks to configure WEP / WPA encryption OR waste a whole day repainting your walls. I can't seem to decide either way.

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^ waisay WEP won't do you much good :p

I guess the only good reason for this would be if you want to confine / block out RF within certain boundaries for other reasons, like maybe a hospital or laboratory where stray RF could cause issues..

but wouldn't this thing block cell phone and radio waves as well? unless it only resonates at 2.4 ghz or so... hmm

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nice Work.............!

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shud paint the kitchen with this paint cuz microwave interferes with wifi n cordless telephone.

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Any tips to increase the WiFi range?