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DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-all-'round dept.

bscience writes "While attending the DEFCON 12 convention this past weekend I had the chance to see the standing ovation a group of 19 year olds received for establishing a 55.1 mile unamplified WiFi connection!" A snippet from the Wired story linked there: "Mobile warriors having trouble making a wireless connection across the hall might want to give some Ohio teens a call. This weekend they were able to make a 55-mile Wi-Fi connection. ... They might have achieved an even greater distance, Justin Rigling said, "but there was no road left."" (Here's the post from a few weeks back about the competition.)

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  1. Customers freaking out... by mikael · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, if someone parked outside my building, pointed a six foot dish at my office, and told me my wireless data needed encrypting, I'd probably freak out too.

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  2. Hawking their equipment? by djcapelis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who find it amusing that these guys roll in on a whim, break the record, win some stuff and immediately go hawk their equipment?

    Some good old hacking spirit right there...

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  3. Partial sponsor by Lawbeefaroni · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article:
    Wired magazine helped sponsor the contest.

    What's the word? Irony? Misnomer?

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