Gas Plasma Antennas Help Wi-Fi Security

mindless4210 writes "Markland Technologies has developed a new gas plasma antenna technology which could help to secure wireless networks. The technology allows for highly directive and electronically steerable digital data transmission via solid-state semi conductor based plasma generators. A plasma antenna can reposition itself at very high speeds, as well as change it's beamwidth and bandwidth, creating spatial and spectral security features which are not presently available with conventional WiFi antenna technology."

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Sounds great.

[Anonymous Coward]

In fact it sounds too good to be true.

Oh wait. I see. It's a press release from a startup company. Never mind.

If you reconfigure the modulators

[Neil Blender]

And verify the heisenberg compensators, it could just possibly work. You might need to check out the lateral sensor array though.

They forgot the best feature of all

[nizo]

The entertainment value when someone walks up and says, "hey whats this thing..." followed by screams as their hand disappears after touching the new flashy glowing thingy.

creating spatial and spectral security features

[FreeLinux]

My BS alarm just tripped and I can't seem to stop it.

I can see it now

[MilkmanIAC]

Picture of a wide-eyed 'generic business person" with big print on the billboard that reads "Got Gas? If not, you're wireless network isn't secure."

So how do you steer it???

[EmbeddedJanitor]

If it is steerable, then it needs some idea of the direction to steer to. This could be done in a location-based way (eg. GPS) or by tracking signal strengths etc. But basically it means that to use this you will be giving away some idea of your position. It will be like the finger of God pointing at you: "There's the bloke viewing pron".

Is that all?

[AaronStJ]

Highly directive and electronically steerable digital data transmission via solid-state semi conductor based plasma generators? Is that all? Heck, I've got, like, four or five solid-state semi conductor based plasma generators providing highly directive and electronically steerable digital data transmission in my car. Highly directive and electronically steerable digital data transmission via solid-state semi conductor based plasma generators aren't that big of a deal.