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Turning Your Home Wiring Into a Giant Antenna
An anonymous reader writes with this IBT snippet: "Imagine if you could run a wireless sensor device for years without ever having to replace the battery. Turns out, the idea of a battery-less wireless device might not be too far off. Researchers at the University of Washington and the Georgia Institute of Technology developed a small node sized device that uses the residential wiring from a building or home and transmits information to and from almost anywhere else from within. The device is called Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure, or SNUPI. It uses basic copper wiring as a giant antenna to receive wireless signals at a set frequency. When the device is within 10 to 15 feet of electrical wiring, it uses the antenna to send data to a single base station." (For "node-sized," think "size of a breakfast cereal prize.")
"Attack", "rail". Expect a visit from a not-so-friendly representative of Homeland Security.
Your Best Friend and Big Brother,
The US Government
Yeah, negotiating right of way with the railroad company. Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?
You should probably re-evaluate how you approach your rails, attacking them shouldn't be necessary!
I'd like to see one of those frenetically sealed batteries. Or maybe just see a video of the battery being sealed.
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it
Im sorry, what is a breakfast cereal prize?
It's something that you plug into your UCB port.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Be happy they didn't call this 'Sensor Nodes Utilizing Conductive Infrastructure' ... the short version of that would not be pretty. Come to think of it, the short version IS not that pretty :)
Veni, Vidi, Velcro!
So, which two words does 'encryption' decrypt to ?
Damnit. Gitmo again?
Hoist Number One and Number Six.