“SvetlogorskHimvolokno” patent the case for smartphone protection against surveillance before Snowden – Mail.Ru

«On the Internet there was an information that a former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden is working on a cover that protects the phone from the surveillance of the intelligence services. Meanwhile, a case already exists – it was created by experts of JSC “SvetlogorskHimvolokno”. It is at this Belarusian company can help Snowden to keep their mobile secrets now, “- said Marina Kostyuchenko

She said the case has a number of unique properties: placed in his mobile phone is fully protected from being read by the speech information. circulating in indoors, and its transmission via cellular communications to third parties. Also ruled out the possibility of finding the phone location by blocking all inbound him signals (GSM, GPS and so on. D. ).

Such properties are explained by the cover so that it is made of carbon-based material viscose, which is capable of shielding against electromagnetic radiation in a wide frequency range (from 0.15 to 1000 MHz) .

in 2015, the “SvetlogorskHimvolokno ‘documents filed with the patent authority for the registration of these products. Now the process of examination development. Typically, from application to receipt of the documents takes place two years. “Svetlogorsk company expects a response from the relevant patent service in 2017. Priority is given to patenting, who first applied for the know-how “, – explained Marina Kostyuchenko. Protective Case is already available for purchase in the company shop businesses.