Wireless Security By The Gallon 216
prostoalex writes "The next effort to improve wireless security might involve a trip to Home Depot. Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint designed to prevent the 802.11 packets from escaping the building, Information Week reports. The article also talks about the Firce Field's pitch to the government in order to improve the homeland security, but the only governments that got interested in anti-Wi-Fi paint were from the Middle East. According to the products page, they also sell the brush sets." Easier than wallpaper, or moving into an old house.
Tinfoil hats? (Score:1, Funny)
Works great on the scalp! (Score:5, Funny)
Boy... (Score:5, Funny)
Home Depot (Score:5, Funny)
The next effort to improve wireless security might involve a trip to Home Depot. Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint designed to prevent the 802.11 packets from escaping the building,
Lowe's [journalnow.com] should consider carrying that product.
Good Old Fashioned Fix (Score:3, Funny)
Ok... wow... misread (Score:5, Funny)
Good old.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:TSS Covered It Last Month... (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps someone was sniffing a little of this paint, hmmm?
Wrong idea (Score:5, Funny)
"It was my concept along with my colleague, Diane Lopez," says Wray, a former network engineer with Networks Associates. "We knew of people inundated with interference on their wireless systems. In fact, Diane, in her apartment, could find eight wireless networks around her. She needed to shield herself."
No, she needed to stop wasting money on broadband and mooch off her neighbors.
Re:Ok... wow... misread (Score:3, Funny)
-the Slink
"One Ring to Rule them all..."
You can be your own lightning rod, too (Score:1, Funny)
Ahh, the benefits of conductive paint.
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Only available on April 1st. (Score:1, Funny)
Good (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Works great on the scalp! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wrong idea (Score:1, Funny)
Re:TSS Covered It Last Month... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OT: glowing letters (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ok... wow... misread (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too much *and* too little (Score:1, Funny)
Is it just me or are "windows" a security risk by *nature*?
Re:Ok... wow... misread (Score:2, Funny)
New book: Hacking Wireless Security by Gollum -"What have you got in your packets???"
Re:Works great on the scalp! (Score:3, Funny)