At 07:01 PM 11/11/01 -0800, Tim May wrote: >One was a map of thousands of "open" communications channels over >wireless links, e.g., 802.11b--just in the Bay Area. In use by >government agencies, even security firms doing police state work. It was >interesting to see what a Yagi antenna mounted in a truck or on a good >hilltop could do for harvesting tens of thousands of passphrases and >slurping down gigabytes of files.
But you missed the mil 4-engine cargo-type plane towing a wire held in a trailing Y config by two mil copters flying in tight formation behind it, circling SF. Yes, I wouldn't have believed that was possible without having seen it. Maybe they were mapping too. ------ Got SAMs?
