Dr Anton Chuvakin Blog (Original)

Security writing since the mid-2000s. New posts are mirrored from Anton on Security on Medium.

On "How to jam your neighbor's Wi-Fi legally"

Kinda cool, ins't it?

» How to jam your neighbor's Wi-Fi legally George Ou ZDNet.com: "While Airgo's third generation product achieves record breaking throughput, it annihilates any legacy 802.11 b/g product in the vicinity and effectively shuts them down. .. What's crazy is that these products are FCC legal and are being sold on store shelves today."

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Comments

Anonymous said…
I only think it is a matter of time before these types of devices will be forced to comply with the regulations.

Yes, they get the approval stamp today, but they violate basic radio regulations for the [public] band they operate in.

One of my customers recently chose a particular vendor for the fact that they do not DoS an attacker.

-Erik