[IP] You prob. know about the wi-fi distance gun--

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ted Nelson <tandm@xanadu.net>
Date: October 30, 2004 11:33:46 PM EDT
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Subject: You prob. know about the wi-fi distance gun--

... but just in case you don't, it's a hoot.  Cheers, Ted

http://www.theregister.com/2004/08/03/wi-fi_aerial_gun/


Wi-Fi 'sniper rifle' debuts at DEFCON
By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 3rd August 2004 11:43 GMT
Conventional Wi-Fi aerials are all well and good but they don't really 
cut
it if you want to impress fellow hackers and scare the general populace.

Forget a modified Pringles can - what you really need at somewhere like
last weekend's DEFCON shindig is something that looks like an M-16 but 
with
its firing mechanism replaced by a 14.6 dBi Yagi antenna that can get 
you
online at up to 10 miles (16.1 km).

and so on.



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