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Security Tents

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Invented by Mel Brooks in the 60's: http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cone-of-silen...

Churchill might have scooped Brooks.

Winston Churchill's secure telephone line from his Cabinet War Rooms to Washington DC was housed in a small closet. Rumors were that this was Churchill's private bathroom and everyone left it alone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthony-gurr/10782926364/

Nothing new. There's a picture of the inside of one of these tents[1] and Wikipedia covers them[2].

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12810675

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...

True, but what he mentions, and what you can see in the photo is that they forgot about the floor.

Unless the security tent comes with a floral printed, carpeted floor...

I wonder what you could do with some optic fibre woven in...

I suspect it does, in fact. If you've got to travel with a rolled up foil-lined rug anyway, might as well make it pretty.

Why do you think that all these technical people would forget about the floor? So the tent comes with a crappy carpet, so what?

> US security officials demand that their bosses - not just the president, but members of Congress, diplomats, policymakers and military officers - take such precautions when travelling abroad because it is widely acknowledged that their hosts often have no qualms about snooping on their guests.

“No qualms” indeed.

All those people living in basements lined with tinfoil were right all along.

fwiw, this was reported in the local press when he was here (chile), although i can't find anything now. that was a couple of years back, so this isn't new.

Next up: Guantanamo-style "secure hoods" containing smart "Google Glass"-style glasses.

The Cone of Silence lives.

startup idea:

it sounds increasingly like there could be market demand for a commercial product equivalent

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