Or you could turn on the WEP encryption that wireless routers already provide.
Wouldn’t this paint prevent me using my wireless router from my patio or even another room in my house? Wouldn’t it interfere with my wireless telephone handset, my mobile phone and my 3G or WiMax data reception too, not to mention the wireless mesh networks connecting automated meters that my electric utility just installed?If I agree to share a wireless router with a neighbor in my apartment complex, and you then paint a wall separating us with this impermeable paint, is that a tort? Do you actually own the radio frequency right of way across your apartment space? Does this right appear in the deed somewhere?
AnonymousOctober 4, 2009 at 3:46 pm
btw…don’t even bother with WEP; it’s so insanely hackable. wpa at least, wpa2 preferably.
mac address filtering is preferable to wep, but I’d still suggest wpa2–both for paranoia.
AnonymousOctober 4, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Right. My neighbor is a hacker extraordinaire, and he’s also out to get me, so he’ll hack my WEP encryption and also browse kiddie porn and recruit fourteen year old girls using my name. Why doesn’t he just shoot me as I walk out of the apartment and get it over with?I don’t even use the WEP encryption, but I’d still rather use your wpa2 than put my router in a closet lined with aluminum foil.
AnonymousOctober 4, 2009 at 11:00 pm
the notion of this being used for wireless security is…well…silly, for the reasons you mentioned. it being used by companies (specifically movie theaters) to block cell phone ringing is quite interesting, and worthwhile, I’d think.
AnonymousOctober 4, 2009 at 11:03 pm
You should be a paint salesman.
AnonymousOctober 4, 2009 at 7:20 am
Black paint to RF light. I’ll bet you could keep an MRI repair crew stumped for days if you painted your body with it.
I wonder if they could instead create RF reflective paint, if that could accomplish the same privacy AND boost in-house reception.
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Or you could turn on the WEP encryption that wireless routers already provide.
Wouldn’t this paint prevent me using my wireless router from my patio or even another room in my house? Wouldn’t it interfere with my wireless telephone handset, my mobile phone and my 3G or WiMax data reception too, not to mention the wireless mesh networks connecting automated meters that my electric utility just installed?If I agree to share a wireless router with a neighbor in my apartment complex, and you then paint a wall separating us with this impermeable paint, is that a tort? Do you actually own the radio frequency right of way across your apartment space? Does this right appear in the deed somewhere?
btw…don’t even bother with WEP; it’s so insanely hackable. wpa at least, wpa2 preferably.
mac address filtering is preferable to wep, but I’d still suggest wpa2–both for paranoia.
Right. My neighbor is a hacker extraordinaire, and he’s also out to get me, so he’ll hack my WEP encryption and also browse kiddie porn and recruit fourteen year old girls using my name. Why doesn’t he just shoot me as I walk out of the apartment and get it over with?I don’t even use the WEP encryption, but I’d still rather use your wpa2 than put my router in a closet lined with aluminum foil.
the notion of this being used for wireless security is…well…silly, for the reasons you mentioned. it being used by companies (specifically movie theaters) to block cell phone ringing is quite interesting, and worthwhile, I’d think.
You should be a paint salesman.
Black paint to RF light. I’ll bet you could keep an MRI repair crew stumped for days if you painted your body with it.
I wonder if they could instead create RF reflective paint, if that could accomplish the same privacy AND boost in-house reception.