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RE: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless
From: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:19:35 -0400
The trick is to realize that it's not *perfectly* point-to-point - the
beam shape isn't a cylinder, but a very narrow cone. The end result is that by the time it's taken a 15 or 20 mile trip tower-to-tower, there's probably some signal down at the base of the tower too. Also, the physical security of those things usually sucks, so if you wanted to climb halfway up the tower with your dish, you probably could. Remember, those relay towers are usually in the middle of nowhere, so it'll take a good 15-20 minutes for cops to show up - plenty of time to sniff lots of interesting data... OK, I've already mentioned that these will be on state police towers in Lousiana. Do you really want to set upo your own microwave receiver at the base of Office Bubba's station? Be my guest. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ <blocked::http://security.eweek.com/> http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/ <http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry_seltzer/> <http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larryseltzer () ziffdavis com
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- Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Paul Ferguson (Jul 07)
- Re: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 07)
- Re: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Dave Paris (Jul 08)
- Re: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Nervox Nervox (Jul 11)
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- Re: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Paul Ferguson (Jul 07)
- RE: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Larry Seltzer (Jul 08)
- RE: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Larry Seltzer (Jul 08)
- Re: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 09)
- Re: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Dennis Henderson (Jul 09)
- RE: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Larry Seltzer (Jul 09)
- RE: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Sean Donelan (Jul 09)
- RE: Louisiana Bankers Set to Go Wireless Nick FitzGerald (Jul 09)