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Taskbar - In article ,Dave Garland wrote: It was a dark and stormy night when PAT wrote: Now my friend who got me the card and wireless router did say if I mounted a highly directional antenna out of my window I could probably go 'one mile or so' and still get the signal. Is that correct? At the recent DEFCON hacker convention in Vegas, a couple of teenagers managed to get 55.1 miles, and said they probably could have gotten more if they hadn't run out of road. Granted, the antennas were 10 foot satellite dishes, so that would adversely impact the portability of your laptop :). Two women who improvised an antenna out of "cardboard, duct tape, and a car sun visor" managed 0.82 miles. The world record is 192 miles, but Swedish Space Corporation used a weather balloon and RF amplification so that was sort of cheating. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, I think the 'couple of teenagers' at Vegas were too smart for their own good. Is the idea to be able to stand on the roof of your house naked and show everyone all your stuff or is the idea to be able to get some kind of convenient mix between flexibilty and privacy? So they got 55 miles? Sounds very impressive until you realize how many people in the span of that 55 miles were eager to see what those boys were doing with their computers and had WiFi cards of their own they could use to explore the boys' computers in more detail. After all, the more people who get in the middle between the base station and yourself, the greater the likelyhood of *someone* -- at least one malcontent -- along the way spying on you successfully, encryption and answering to one non- broadcasted MAC address only not withstanding. Of course, finding the proper mix between flexibilty and privacy is dependent on your circumstances, but 55 miles?PAT, you don't know what you don't know.I've seen the gear the guys that got the 55 mi point-to-point distanceused.A 'standard' system, at virtually any point in-between those two*very* special antennas would -not- have been able to get into thenetwork.If someone trying to intercept the traffic were relatively close toone end or the other, they might, using *VERY*SPECIALIZED* equipment,be able to passively listen in to _one_side_ of the traffic."standard" equipment, just like a modern high-speed modem, won't show-anything- without some 'negotiation' between the two ends.With Diffie-Hellman key exchange, or similar practices, being able tolisten to only one side of the traffic gives you *nothing* to workwith.With the actual antenna equipment they used, anybody trying to'intercept' any part of the traffic would have had to had theirreceiving antenna _very_ close to the straight-line path between thetwo antennas. like no more than about 20', horizontally orvertically.Also, anybody 'in the middle' who had up "enough antenna" to capture a'usable' signal would almost assuredly have interfered enough with the'end-to-end' signal strength to the point that the end-to-endconnection would not have been usable.
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