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Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

  • From: Kevin Loch
  • Date: Wed Apr 17 14:30:54 2002 
"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