[Enginerrrd]

I think that the engineering is very challenging and the market for this is nonexistent.

First, anyone truly concerned about this for actual use cases just isn’t going to bring their phone with them at sensitive times. Especially after the infamous chip bag Italian meta data incident.

Second, it’s conspicuous and kinda suspicious so its use is limited to primarily virtue signaling privacy advocates or crazy people and the latter aren’t usually big spenders.

Third: the engineering sounds challenging. All that metal in an undeployed fashion is going to reflect and interfere with reception. ( it isn’t an iron man suit, it has to get packed somewhere.). That may also interfere with RF safety approvals? Finally, avoiding RF leakage is surprisingly difficult in practice.

[hattar]

> chip bag Italian meta data incident

I’m not familiar with this one and search didn’t get me anything that seemed relevant. Got a link to something describing the incident?

[computerfriend]

The kidnapping of Abu Omar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGsr3SzCZc

[nsvd2]

What is the chip bag Italian meta data incident?

[blahlabs]

What is the infamous chip bag Italian meta data incident? I have had a quick search but nothing obvious jumped out. I'm very curious!