Proxyham Wi-Fi relay SUPPRESSED. CONSPIRACY, yowl tinfoilers

Tuesday 14th July 2015 13:59 GMT Spaceman Spiff

As in using a Yagi antenna wouldn't be noticed? Gah! Yes, they are very useful as WiFi extenders, but not exactly "stealth" equipment.

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1. Tuesday 14th July 2015 15:00 GMT Alister
  
  Yeah, even a copper would probably guess that he can look where it's pointing...
  
  That gives him an even chance on tying down the origin of the signal to two directions, depending on whether he knows the radiating end from the reflector end...
  
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2. Wednesday 15th July 2015 00:36 GMT Charles Manning
  
  If you can intercept 2.4GHz, you can incercept 900MHz
  
  There is nothing magic about 900MHz that makes it harder to eavesdrop on.
  
  If anything 900 MHz is easier:
  
  1) It is all licensed band, so legitimate users will find you and dob you in before you can say "Pringles Can".
  
  2) You can be charged just for transmitting - no matter the content.
  
  3) The antenna needs to be 3x as big - way harder to hide and use.
  
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Tuesday 14th July 2015 15:26 GMT The First Dave

If you look where this "stealth" antenna is pointing then you have quite literally got the wrong end of the stick.

Oh, and -1 for "ideation"...

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Tuesday 14th July 2015 15:46 GMT Munin

Even if the antenna weren't noticed, radio direction finding is, in fact, a thing - and at 900 MHz, it's a pretty easy thing. Frankly, I am only really disappointed the talk was pulled because I was planning to attend to ask the presenter some very pointed questions about why he thought putting wifi comms across a 900MHz backhaul was innovative or interesting at all - much less why he was fiddling about adding a raspberry pi to the mix.

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1. Tuesday 14th July 2015 20:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Indeed, fox hunting is a very common past time of many radio HAMs.
  
  If they can do it at low bands like 6m, they can do it at 900MHz with ease. If enthusiasts can do it with home-built antennas and $100 hand-held radio receivers, imagine what the likes of the FCC/Ofcom/ACMA/… can do.
  
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2. Wednesday 15th July 2015 00:39 GMT Charles Manning
  
  "wifi comms across a 900MHz backhaul was innovative or interesting at all - much less why he was fiddling about adding a raspberry pi to the mix."
  
  It didn't have to make technical sense. It just needed enough buzzwords to bamboozle the invesduhs.
  
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Tuesday 14th July 2015 20:07 GMT x 7

more likely they read the comments following last weeks El Reg article about this and realised they were wasting their time....

enough problems there to make the project a non-starter

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Tuesday 14th July 2015 22:18 GMT Ammaross Danan

Ubiquiti

Ubiquiti makes some decent kit. Shame their company name is misspelled in the article.

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Wednesday 15th July 2015 02:23 GMT Trevor_Pott

"Graham finds – and so does Vulture South – the idea that the FBI would hit the roof about simple and basic technology “implausible”."

You're talking about an organization led by a cryptography denier. Sorry, but <i.any</i> level of stupidity is plausible for them.

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1. Wednesday 15th July 2015 06:55 GMT x 7
  
  "cryptography denier."
  
  Something to do with ultralightweight stockings? Ones that appear invisible?
  
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  1. Wednesday 15th July 2015 09:16 GMT ScottAS2
    
    They're tights that allow Alice to reveal what's contained in them to Bob, while keeping Eve unaware.
    
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Wednesday 15th July 2015 02:33 GMT ops4096

Meh .. ?

Legal issues seem to have a mysterious tendency to evaporate in the presence of TLA's.Sounds like some wonk in some TLA thought that ProxyHam had a really good idea and that they simply had to have the technology for their own exclusive use. Would the pi be useful as a dedicated cryptographic or DSP scrambling engine? Your taxpayer dollars at work.

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Wednesday 15th July 2015 04:34 GMT Anonymous Coward

It doesn't matter

If you're a crim, sooner than later you'll be caught no matter what means you use to try and hide your identity and location. As the authorities like to say: "You have to be lucky every time. We only need to be lucky once". People who make bad choices end up at the Iron Bar Hotel for extended stays.

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