The Military Garage Door Blues
Posted 06-Dec-2005 02:10 | Permanent Link
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Do you live on or near a US military base? Do you have trouble with your
automatic garage door opener? Is your neighbour muttering darkly about "the
government"? Well, he may be right. The US military is the authorized user
of the 380-399.9 MHz spectrum, and military radio systems like the new Land
Mobile Radio system can easily drown out the weak signals of your garage
door opener on similar wavelengths. MSNBC reports
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10295651/.
As a public service, we'll add that recent MIT experiments with tinfoil hats
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ have also noted critical
vulnerabilities to common military spectrum wavelengths. Then again, they
would say that, wouldn't they?