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back to the drawing board
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri May 29 10:15:44 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 07:14:13 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Guess they've never heard of IPSEC...
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:20:35 +0200
To: technomads@UCSD.EDU
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Subject: back to the drawing board
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/12555.html
LONDON -- An ambitious project to provide high-speed Internet
access through electricity mains hit a snag when street lights
using the same power supply turned into rogue radio transmitters.
Trials of the systems in Manchester showed that Norweb's Digital
PowerLine technology was fast but Internet users discovered that
the data they were downloading was being broadcast as high-
frequency radio waves through the street lamps.
Physical similarities between the street lights, which are the
right vertical length of a conductor, caused them to act as radio
aerials.
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Robert A. Hettinga
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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