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Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre


From: Kevin Loch <kloch () gurunet net>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:29:20 -0400


"Rubens Kuhl Jr." wrote:

Spread-spectrum radio systems are not that easy to DoS, a good benefit from
the original military applications.

Actually, at close range it should be trivial to Dos an 802.11 system. 
Just
throw up a strong enough carrier anywhere within the receivers passband
and it will have trouble hearing the desired traffic. Even a 2.4GHz
cordless 
phone in the same room could cause problems.

KL


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