Satellite eavesdropping of 802.11b traffic

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:19:15PM -0500, Matt Crawford wrote:
> Don't dismiss possibilities for wireless data eavesdropping without 
> considering the possibilities of this new chip
> 
> http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12490.html
> 
> and its friends
> 
> http://www.chic.caltech.edu/

If you want to fly a LEO constellation of them, you need a very sparse structure (or
a huge density of pongsats, which doesn't agree with observations).

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