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Mobile Wireless at Tempe Presidential Debate

Posted by samzenpus on from the internet-car dept.

badcataz writes "Presidential debate goers in Tempe, Arizona might find a strange looking electric vehicle providing wireless service. WAZ Tempe has modified and Italian Electic car to extend their downtown Tempe network using a 1 Watt Tropos 5110 wireless mesh node."

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  1. God forbid... by dj245 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...that someone actually uses their small, ultra-energy-efficient vehicles for actually driving somewhere. If the war in Iraq was for oil, and men died over there and you don't use that oil; well, I guess that makes you just as bad as the terrorists.

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    Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
  2. Re:If they had a ham license.... by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I believe you might be aware that a problem with that is that you could not legally use any form of encryption over that signal, be it in the hardware layer like WEP & WPA or in the application layer like SSH or HTTPS. Once you do email, either you are either sending your password in plain text or you are technically breaking the terms of the ham licence.

  3. Re:If they had a ham license.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    That is 100% correct. No amateur radio transmissions may be encrypted.

    KE3PB