Posts by neobroadcaster

FM stations not on DAB

This particularly narks me. Not Mr.Fry as I do like him generally, but the whole "Give up your FM and go to DAB" stance.

I am a director for a community radio station for the area, and we are only permitted on FM and internet, so everyone goes for this DAB trade-in scheme, we loose our audience, we loose our advertisers and the whole community radio as we know it in the UK dies. (OK, I know its not got the best future with Ofcom already, but still).

So if this is going to work, it needs to be done better, whoever is leading this seems not to care about anyone who can't afford the huge premium to get a DAB channel. Oh that'll be the BBC then....

So what!

Their car doesn't sit outside your house long enough to get enough of a sample to crack your WEP, and WPA2, etc, don't even bother.

So they snapshot your BROADCASTED SSID, who's fault is it for broadcasting the SSID?

So they snapshot the MAC address of your wifi router, SO WHAT!

They've made a tasty mapping somewhere of open WIFI spots (probably for open access cafe's, pubs, etc) that will be released as an overlay, if your WIFI was open then you get what you deserve.

Me?

Mines the one with the SSID masked, broadcasts switched off and MAC authentication ONLY to permit access to my DMZ. Anything less, and its your own fail.