{"id":116747,"date":"2020-12-06T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/5g-truthers-bought-faraday-cages-to-protect-their-routers-theyre-mad-they-worked"},"modified":"2020-12-06T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T18:22:17","slug":"5g-truthers-bought-faraday-cages-to-protect-their-routers-theyre-mad-they-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/5g-truthers-bought-faraday-cages-to-protect-their-routers-theyre-mad-they-worked","title":{"rendered":"5G Truthers Bought Faraday Cages to Protect Their Routers. They\u2019re Mad They Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5g-truthers-bought-faraday-cages-to-protect-their-routers-theyre-mad-they-worked.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not much of a surprise there\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you hate 5G and genuinely believe it causes cancer or spreads COVID-19, despite there being <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a34025852\/are-5g-towers-safe\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a34025852\/are-5g-towers-safe\/\">no evidence to support those wild conspiracies<\/a>. To shield 5G\u2019s myriad evils, then, you put your WiFi router in a metallic box that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi\/dp\/B07MXD75TR\/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi\/dp\/B07MXD75TR\/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" data-affiliate=\"true\">\u201cblocks about 90 percent\u201d<\/a> of the signal. There! Now you\u2019re instantly protected from those treacherous waves of radiation!<\/p>\n<p>This may sound like a made-up scenario, but <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/technology\/conspiracy-theorists-buy-faraday-cages-to-protect-themselves-then-complain-when-they-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/technology\/conspiracy-theorists-buy-faraday-cages-to-protect-themselves-then-complain-when-they-work\/\">5G truthers really have bought these devices in droves<\/a>. There\u2019s just one small problem with their fool-proof plan: The kinds of containers that truly <em>do <\/em>block <em><\/em>all electromagnetic radiation are called Faraday cages, and they\u2019re not the same thing as these so-called \u201crouter guards\u201d that look like glorified mesh file organizers. If they were real Faraday cages, none of your home WiFi signal would come through.<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1 DON\u2019T LET TECH TRICK YOU. Master your digital world with best-in-class tech explainers and unlimited access to Pop Mech, starting NOW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much of a surprise there\u2026 Let\u2019s say you hate 5G and genuinely believe it causes cancer or spreads COVID-19, despite there being no evidence to support those wild conspiracies. To shield 5G\u2019s myriad evils, then, you put your WiFi router in a metallic box that \u201cblocks about 90 percent\u201d of the signal. There! Now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}