【Inexperienced Experience Of The Summer (2015)】

The Inexperienced Experience Of The Summer (2015)truth about microwave ovens is notthat they can be used for spying. As you're about to see, it's quite the opposite.

But in this brave new world where world leaders forcefully insist that left is down and right is up -- often by distorting something they saw on a TV screen moments ago -- it's not too much of a stretch to think that Kellyanne Conway may have recently screened Snowden.

SEE ALSO: Edward Snowden doesn't just endorse 'Snowden.' He's in it.

In an interview with her hometown paper published Sunday, the senior counselor to President Donald Trump was asked point-blank whether she had any evidence that Trump Tower had been "wiretapped."

Her now-infamous answer:

There are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately. There was an article this week that said you can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets -- any number of ways. ... and microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. We know that this is just a fact of modern life.

There was indeed that WikiLeaks dump earlier this month suggesting that smartphones and TVs could be hacked. But it mentioned nothing whatsoever about microwaves. Where could Conway have possibly gotten the kernel of an idea about microwaves that she would later misrepresent, whipping up another nonsensical viral moment.

Have a watch of this clip from Snowden, which comes courtesy of Open Road Films. Yes, it features a paranoid Edward Snowden and there's a microwave, but as you probably have guessed, the microwave isn't doing any spying:

Mashable Top Stories Stay connected with the hottest stories of the day and the latest entertainment news. Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

Snowden puts his visitors' cell phones in the nuker not to make iHotPockets, but because "It blocks UHF frequencies." If someone was hacking the journalist's phones, there's no way to get a signal in or out.

Pretty clever. And based in fact.

That's because a standard microwave oven acts as a Faraday cage, the fancy name for any enclosure that blocks the passage of electromagnetic fields. A little home test proved this to be effective.

I called my cellphone from Google Voice on my laptop, and it worked as usual:

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

And again, inside the microwave, as my Google Voice dials it. Nothing doing -- in fact, it went straight to voicemail, every time, as if I were off the grid:

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

Now then, a senior White House adviser boning up on the ins and outs of wiretapping for a big interview by watching Snowdenon a DVD or streaming service like iTunes -- where it's been available since Dec. 27 -- and still not getting it would have seemed like a ridiculous thing, oh, 50 or so days ago.

But nowadays you serve up the most rubbery, undercooked stuff in a flash and some folks will just eat it up.

---

Featured Video For You

---

Here's a clip of Kellyanne Conway's previous (and mercifully brief) career in stand-up comedy

---

Topics Donald Trump

• Life
• Social Good
• Deals
• Science
• Digital Culture
• Entertainment
• Games
• Tech

• What Comes After Resistance?
• 'Flipside' review: Judd Apatow, Starlee Kine, and David Milch talk art and failure
• Douyin to enter offline payment field with $190 million purchase of third
• 'Doctor Who' does 'Black Mirror' in 'Dot and Bubble'
• We are really bad at heeding warnings about disasters
• Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 31
• China’s EHang secures world’s first production certificate for flying taxis · TechNode
• Light Year founder Wang Huiwen returns to Meituan as part
• Alliance Against Progress
• Amazon deals of the day: Sonos Era 300, Beats Studio Buds +, Sonos Era 100, and Kodak Mini Shot 3

• Lost Companions
• The View from Warsaw
• The Woman without Qualities
• War by Another Name
• The New Neurasthenia
• Suffer the Little Children
• New galactic Webb space telescope picture is jaw
• Remember the Potemkin
• Mixed Signals
• The Prosecutor’s Presidency

• Mariah Carey Has a Cold
• Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program loses its head
• Huawei unveils new Pura 70 series smartphones, expected to be on sale from April 18 · TechNode
• Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program loses its head
• Junk Merchants
• Wild videos show NYC isn't built for storms like Elsa
• Tinder, Bumble, Hinge: major dating apps are becoming alike
• Giant rhino fossils shed light on the biggest land mammals in history
• Mariah Carey Has a Cold
• Taiwan’s chip industry rapidly resumes operations after recent earthquake · TechNode

• Transfer Steam Games to a New Drive Without Redownloading
• Meituan names a new CEO to lead core local commerce · TechNode
• How to leave a group chat on iPhone
• Unistellar's eVscope boosts citizen astronomy during COVID
• Our Lady of Complicity
• Toyota’s China joint venture to use Huawei components for autonomous driving: report · TechNode
• Amazon deals of the day: Sonos Era 300, Beats Studio Buds +, Sonos Era 100, and Kodak Mini Shot 3
• How to play 'Fortnite' on iPhone
• Downward-Facing Capitalist Dogma
• Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 31