ess (phil hunt) wrote:

:On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:03:52 GMT, Fred J. McCall wrote:
(phil hunt) wrote:
:
::I've argued elsewhere[1] that middle-income countries should
::consider using a wireless internet mesh as the foundation for their
:civilian) information infrastructure. Why not allow the military
::system to piggyback off that? (as a backup: the civilian
::system might be down in an area, and there should be a separate
::military system as well). Now a proper wireless internet
::infrastructure would mean every apartment building, workplace,
::school, hospital, etc being connected. It would be quite difficult,
::both militarily and politically, to shut down such a widespread
::network.
:
:Dirt simple to shut down. You have looked at the various wireless
:internet technologies and how easy they are to jam out, degrade, etc,
:haven't you?
:
:Are all of them easy to degrade? Even spread spectrum or frequency
:hopping ones?

Of course.

: Not to mention all the spoofing that would become
:possible (WEP isn't).
:
:Indeed. However wireless internet doesn't necessarily involve WEP.

And so it is even easier to spoof.

I'm curious. Why do you think WE don't do the things you suggest, if
they are so much more effective?

*I* think we don't do them because 'magic' is required for them to
work and in the real world there's damned little usable magic about.

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Charles Pinckney