Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 12, 2003 @08:53AM from the remote-power-switch-like-mel-gibson dept.

RegardsSJ writes "Robert X. Cringley on his PBS website mentions a $479 wireless, fanless 120gb network storage/file server appliance (running linux) in his column. He thinks the killer app for this one is for keeping your porn storage hidden, if you're busted by the cops. I think his concept is weak, given the wireless signal is traceable (security through obscurity?), WEP is breakable, and the fact that you have to have the thing plugged in somewhere... The company selling the device is martian.com. Anybody use one?" Now that it's possible to stream audio and video through various boxes originally serving other purposes (like TiVo and PlayStation2), this looks like a good companion piece, too.

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Wireless Radiation by GregBildson · 2003-04-12 09:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Is anybody afraid of all this radiation that we are surrounding ourselves with? Sitting in front of a computer all day is bad enough but everywhere you go there is more spectrum in use. I love the idea of a wireless world but I hope our kids don't come out looking blue.

I've seen reports that cell phones can noticeably heat up the users brain (seriously!). Anything concrete yet on the overall effect?