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Wireless Security By The Gallon

Posted by timothy on from the just-a-little-lead-ma'am dept.

prostoalex writes "The next effort to improve wireless security might involve a trip to Home Depot. Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint designed to prevent the 802.11 packets from escaping the building, Information Week reports. The article also talks about the Firce Field's pitch to the government in order to improve the homeland security, but the only governments that got interested in anti-Wi-Fi paint were from the Middle East. According to the products page, they also sell the brush sets." Easier than wallpaper, or moving into an old house.

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  1. Tinfoil hats? by Stop+the+war+now! · · Score: 1, Funny

    I always knew they were useful.

  2. Works great on the scalp! by CyberGarp · · Score: 5, Funny

    New cheap replacements for all those tin-foil hats. Easy application!

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    1. Re:Works great on the scalp! by ch-chuck · · Score: 2, Funny

      We've had replacements for tin-foil hats for some time now, not only more effective, but w/o the crackpot factor!

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    2. Re:Works great on the scalp! by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've tried this paint on my shorts, and I can report it almost controls unwanted emissions.

  3. Boy... by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint

    ...talk about a TEMPEST in a teapot.

  4. Home Depot by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Funny


    The next effort to improve wireless security might involve a trip to Home Depot. Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint designed to prevent the 802.11 packets from escaping the building,

    Lowe's should consider carrying that product.

  5. Good Old Fashioned Fix by mary_will_grow · · Score: 3, Funny

    I knew these cans of lead paint would find a use someday!!!!!

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  6. Ok... wow... misread by Dirtside · · Score: 4, Funny

    At first glance I saw "Wireless Security By Gollum". I can't even begin to figure out what that might involve. The One Token Ring, perhaps?

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    1. Re:Ok... wow... misread by SlinkyToad · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or maybe a Tolkien Ring network...

      -the Slink

      "One Ring to Rule them all..."

    2. Re:Ok... wow... misread by emc · · Score: 2, Funny

      Score: -1, Groan)

    3. Re:Ok... wow... misread by LuckyPhil · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Wireless Security By Gollum"

      New book: Hacking Wireless Security by Gollum -"What have you got in your packets???"

  7. Good old.. by Gorffy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Paranoia. The true mother of all invention.

  8. Re:TSS Covered It Last Month... by RangerRick98 · · Score: 2, Funny

    copped-laced paint...Firce Field's pitch

    Perhaps someone was sniffing a little of this paint, hmmm?

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  9. Wrong idea by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    FTFA:

    "It was my concept along with my colleague, Diane Lopez," says Wray, a former network engineer with Networks Associates. "We knew of people inundated with interference on their wireless systems. In fact, Diane, in her apartment, could find eight wireless networks around her. She needed to shield herself."

    No, she needed to stop wasting money on broadband and mooch off her neighbors.

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    1. Re:Wrong idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I've seriously considered this. I've got 4 wifi laptops, if I associate each one with a different neighbor's access point and use them all for Bittorrent downloading I could quadruple my bandwidth, and cancel my broadband account. A win-win situation! No more envy of the people in countries with 10mb home access for $20 a month, I would have 12mb access for FREE :)

  10. You can be your own lightning rod, too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    And don't turn on the lights when you're in the shower.

    Ahh, the benefits of conductive paint.

  11. Re:Well... by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's to stop you from painting the shingles? Aesthetics don't matter- this stuff is probably gunmetal grey anyway.

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  12. Only available on April 1st. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This product will be shipped in used Pringles cartons on April 1st 2005.

  13. Good by Ed+Thomson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally I have a reason to paint over the windows to get rid of that pesky Sun.

  14. Re:TSS Covered It Last Month... by bladesjester · · Score: 3, Funny

    Using wireless in an outhouse? Talk about your reception going to shit

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  15. Re:OT: glowing letters by lawpoop · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um, sure, is your email ac@slashdot.org?

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  16. Re:Too much *and* too little by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Shit! Windows???!? What are we going to do about windows?"

    Is it just me or are "windows" a security risk by *nature*?