WiFi blocking paint
Oct 2, 2009 | 3:14 pm
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WiFi blocking paint
keeps your signal in your house, but on the downside, could be used on trains, lounges, etc to keep other signals out, so you are forced to purchase theirs. Or paint a movie theatre or restaurant to keep phones from ringing.
It can be used for both good and evil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stm
It can be used for both good and evil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stm
Oct 3, 2009 | 11:56 am
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just use WiFi Speed Spray™, should you find yourself trapped within the confines of a building painted with wifi blocking paint.
"As your computer sends data, each bit also carries hundreds of invisible WiFi Speed Spray™ "scrubbing" molecules. It works at the speed of light. and even penetrates lead walls (not even Superman can do that!). Within .0025 seconds, the entire path between you and the receiver is cleaned, scrubbed, polished, and sanitized. You'll notice the improvement immediately as your productivity soars!"
"As your computer sends data, each bit also carries hundreds of invisible WiFi Speed Spray™ "scrubbing" molecules. It works at the speed of light. and even penetrates lead walls (not even Superman can do that!). Within .0025 seconds, the entire path between you and the receiver is cleaned, scrubbed, polished, and sanitized. You'll notice the improvement immediately as your productivity soars!"
Oct 3, 2009 | 1:05 pm
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Yeah, but anybody who buys it will be able to hang up their aluminum foil hats once and for all, at least when they are in their house.
Oct 4, 2009 | 7:23 pm
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This article on wired.com (includes video demo) describes a system which uses a multiple radio transmitters and receivers around a house to detect the locations of people within the house from their effect on signals going through the house. In is present embryonic state the system can already figure out locations. As one of the comments on the article points out, more detail may be just around the corner, as may less obtrusive installations. If this sort of thing becomes a major concern, radio frequency blocking paint may become standard for anyone concerned with their personal domestic privacy.
Oct 5, 2009 | 4:44 pm
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Perhaps I am naive, but what is the big deal if someone is poaching off your WiFi/router. Is it mainly a security issue or are they impacting speed/performance or both. My unprotected WiFi is exposed to my 88 year old neighbor on the left and my neighbor on the right who has his own WiFi. I don't want to be hassled by password protection everytime I log on. Am I being foolish?
Oct 5, 2009 | 5:44 pm
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Perhaps I am naive, but what is the big deal if someone is poaching off your WiFi/router. Is it mainly a security issue or are they impacting speed/performance or both. My unprotected WiFi is exposed to my 88 year old neighbor on the left and my neighbor on the right who has his own WiFi. I don't want to be hassled by password protection everytime I log on. Am I being foolish?
- Potentially security, if those who can access it have the skills and are so inclined. (See posts below for relative rankings of the various protection methods in this regard.)
- Performance, if you're trying to upload or download large files - or if they are.
- Possible attribution of their inappropriate behavior to you. You would, if it comes to that, have a very difficult time proving that someone else did whatever it was if it was via your router.
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Oct 5, 2009 | 9:22 pm
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Perhaps I am naive, but what is the big deal if someone is poaching off your WiFi/router. Is it mainly a security issue or are they impacting speed/performance or both. My unprotected WiFi is exposed to my 88 year old neighbor on the left and my neighbor on the right who has his own WiFi. I don't want to be hassled by password protection everytime I log on. Am I being foolish?
Keeping it open just exposes yourself to unnecessary risk. But most of the methods can be easily cracked, unless you are using the latest and greatest one. Even that one can be cracked, just not as easily.
I would enable it.
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Oct 5, 2009 | 9:58 pm
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WEP can be cracked quite easily.
WPA/WPA2 are virtually uncrackable short of brute force (which would take on the order of millions of years). So use a good passphrase.
WPA/WPA2 are virtually uncrackable short of brute force (which would take on the order of millions of years). So use a good passphrase.
Oct 5, 2009 | 10:15 pm
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on the other hand, if you use TKIP or words found in a dictionary, it's not that tough to crack.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23384