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Anti-Wi-Fi Wallpaper

Posted by michael on from the better-than-tin-foil dept.

Alephcat writes "New Scientist is reporting on a wallpaper that can prevent hackers accessing secure networks via Wi-Fi - without blocking mobile phone signals - that's been developed by a British defence contractor. It is based on covert 'stealth' technology that was originally designed to hide military radars."

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  1. That's fine... but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    what's to stop me from establishing a VPN connection over my GPRS cell? Either way, they can't win.

  2. Does it go both ways? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can they make wallpaper that enhances my wifi instead of killing it?

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    "Derp de derp."
  3. Re:I don't know ... by Sheetrock · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Think of it as part of a security solution rather than the whole solution.

    I use a firewall, but I also patch my machines. Some people skip the second step until the first or second time someone brings in a laptop from home and connects it to the internal network, which brings me to the point about running software firewalls on individual machines in addition to the one at the router.

    I agree that this wallpaper is better as a backup defense rather than a primary one, but plays an important part nonetheless. Home laptops are being pushed with WiFi now.

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    Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
    -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.




  4. Anti Wi-Fi neighbor!! by ron_ivi · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I can beat that... I had a anti-wi-fi neighbor.

    Set up my wireless access point as a deliberatelly unprotected box and watched packets fly by my router... Seems one of my neighbors was quite into high-bandwidth images and videos - guess he had a script or something to make downloading faster. Pretty effective denial of service attack on the WiFi access point.