[46918] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Wed Apr 17 14:29:08 2002
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:29:20 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@gurunet.net>
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"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
