Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/01/weird-sonic-attacks.html
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Time to get that tinfoil hat out of storage.
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Fine. Put microwave detectors in the embassies. If fact, after shenanigans the Soviets tried back in the day, I’m surprised that they aren’t standard.
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I am surprised that they don’t have Faraday-caged them already. Perhaps the issue is with the private residences.
ETA: sp
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Without some kind of wave-detecting superstructure, this looks like Hershey’s Kiss cosplay.
Is this a base kit McPhee is selling, then, where buyers would be expected to homebrew their own super-spy attachments?
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Portable detectors then. Pi-equiv or tablet tech, Software Defined Radio, a USB dongle receiver with a wide microwave coverage, a Fourier transform display to show what’s happening across the band. Look for spikes.
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Sounds more like the Fry effect. 
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It is worth mentioning, a short range directed microwave weapon is something you could knock together in your garage for a hundred bucks.
Old microwave off CL wired up to a 2.4ghz parabolic antenna commonly used for wifi.
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Wouldn’t this cause a tinfoil hat to spark and ignite?
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I believe it’s referred to as a HERF Cannon.
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I wonder if this is related to the odd phenomenon of occasionally hearing meteors as they pass overhead…
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Well, we’ve been developing these kinds of weapons for years now. It only makes practical sense that our enemies would also be making them. War is fun, stealth war is like a video game. /S
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Tin foil hats aren’t effective.
You need something more faraday cage like:
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Dammit! This is how I always pictured these attacks.
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Never attribute to malice what you can to stupidity.
I read somewhere (sorry I don’t have the link) that it’s common to try to “fill” rooms with various frequencies as part of eavesdropping. I think it’s more likely this is some sort of attempt at eavesdropping that’s a little riskier than normal, and occasionally results in damage.
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Sometimes, 40 or more feet away from my microwave I get this intense burning sensation in my head, mouth and throat. It leaves me unable to taste much of anything for days afterwards. It usually happens a few minutes after I hear a whirring noise followed by a repeating high frequency sound.
I knew there was something wrong with my microwave.
Well, I’ll have to get it looked into. For now, I’m going to eat this off-brand Hotpocket I just heated up while I watch In Search Of listen to Coast To Coast AM and try to find the secret code in InfoWars .
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This is my default position, too. I don’t want to eliminate the possibility of a deliberate act, but just consider all the other sources of microwave radiation at or near those frequencies. Could easily be our own stuff that’s ill-maintained or otherwise malfunctioning.
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On the serious side:
If true this is terrible, and could quite likely be true. It will be Interesting if the truth ever comes out.
If a weapon like this exists, imagine how and on what kind of people it was “tested”/first used on?
Members of Jason, a secretive group of elite scientists that helps the federal government assess new threats to national security
What the fuck is Jason ? And do they have capes and/or superpowers ?
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