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Re: Satellite eavesdropping of 802.11b traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Thu May 27 21:14:04 2004
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:04:20 -0400
To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>, cypherpunks@minder.net,
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
At 12:35 PM -0400 5/27/04, John Kelsey wrote:
>Does anyone know whether the low-power nature of wireless LANs protects
>them from eavesdropping by satellite?
It seems to me that you'd need a pretty big dish in orbit to get that kind
of resolution.
The Keyholes(?) are for microwaves, right?
Cheers,
RAH
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