For those of us who enjoy wardriving

[Michael P. Morris]

Slashdot posted an intriguing article about wallpaper that prevents Wi-Fi signals from leaving your house. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?...p?id=ns99996240 (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996240)

Seems kind of stupid, but I can see this catching on. I guess people are too dumb to realize that you can passowrd protect your **** for free instead of spending about 300 dollars to put butt-ugly wallpaper in your house.

[David Wolfson]

... more like $100 per square-foot.... Definitely a must for the paranoid who has everything!

[Michael P. Morris]

Still more trouble than it is probably worth, though. Apparently no one has ever heard of 192.168.1.1

[David Wolfson]

Mike, see there's the problem! I use that exact same IP on my firewall. :shock: :wink:

[David Wolfson]

Here's an interesting approach to Wi-Fi security.
http://www.linksys.com/wirelessguard/

[Aaron Kennedy]

Makes ya wonder if it blocks wifi signal how much other EM stuff it blocks out... I know there has been concern with living near high tension lines or transformer stations... perhaps this would protect you from that radation?

Aaron

[Michael P. Morris]

Aaron, if this is true I can recall a certain household who could certainly use some!

[Kurt Silvey]

Will it keep the aliens out? I’m kind a tied of wearing foil hats :roll:

[Dan Cook]

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[j_r_hehnly]

Originally posted by Michael P. Morris
Aaron, if this is true I can recall a certain household who could certainly use some!

This one???
http://www2.okstorms.com:8080/images/random/20040618_145334_ps.jpg

[Michael P. Morris]

Ha Ha Ha! Yes that's it!

[Thomas Loades]

I have read that there are plans to put this wallpaper in movie theaters to stop people from using their cellphones in there — about time, I say.

[John Erwin]

I can't see that being entirely usefull by itself. What about your windows? Doorways? Of course, you could do things with those too. If you're that paranoid, use a VPN solution in combo with appropriate encryption.

Having said that, some of the other uses for the wallpaper might be valid enough... again keeping in mind that doing the walls alone is not enough.

[Todd Rittinger]

Originally posted by Michael P. Morris
Seems kind of stupid, but I can see this catching on. I guess people are too dumb to realize that you can passowrd protect your **** for free instead of spending about 300 dollars to put butt-ugly wallpaper in your house.

Michael, you are so right. We go up and down with customers on this all the time:

1) No DHCP
2) Turn off ESSID broadcast (and modify from default)
3) MAC filtering
4) Change 192.168.1 to something slightly different

Done like a dinner, and for only the cost of the radio itself.....

DSSS is in itself secure, so once you have secured connection to the network, you can now sleep at night.

Be well, TR