Wow, the FCC suddenly acting like it has the power to regulate corporations?
Whatâs next, sensible policies regarding net neutrality?
Itâs called radio signal jamming and itâs been illegal for 81 years now.
But our lobbyists are already re-writing the law to allow for internet âfilteringâ. Such discrimination!
Whatâs next, sensible policies regarding net neutrality?
Donât get your hopes up. There just wasnât enough money behind Marriottâs argument.
Victory!!!
Well sort ofâŚ
When you live in a country(USA) where mobile telephony and data are so profitable that the corporations become major regulatory capture problems you pretty much canât declare victory without a major revolution. Instead the market does not discount to competition based around cost but rather a collusive oligopoly based on how much can be extracted from the average consumer.
Mobile services are cheap to provide; even in western Europe $20/month gets you unlimited service for the following; voice, SMS, inâtl calling, a few foreign âlocalâ numbers, unlimited data throttled after say 6-10Gb, even this is VERY profitable.
In this case with hotels the obviously right decision is made with backing from an industry which rivals or eclipses the military-industrial complex in law dictating power.
I would imagine itâs not hard to do it anyway, in a way thatâs hard to trace. Hey, maybe thatâs a business ideaâŚ
But they werenât jamming radio signals, they were using devices/software that sniff out ârogueâ access points and disrupt connections to them through the normal 802.11 protocols (or something like that). Itâs all described in great detail at the âpreviouslyâ link in the post.
How is emitting RF noise specially crafted to prevent the operation of another radio system not textbook âjammingâ?
Yes, the easiest(and possibly best, against things like AM/FM radio that donât really have protocol features to exploit) flavor of jamming is just really loud noise aimed at approximately the right frequency range; but nothing makes that the only form of jamming.
Using spoofed 802.11 management frames, or flooding a device with spurious connect requests, is more elegant and targeted than just firing up the spark gap; but more elegant just means more premeditated.
In case you arenât aware, wifi uses radio signals. But let me trim the relevant section down for you to make it clear.
including devices that interfere with⌠wireless networking services (Wi-Fi)
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