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A pringles can, and somebody sympathetic within a mile, and no problem. Unless they threaten to throw him out for accessing the internet.
by gwicks56 9y ago
A pringles can, and somebody sympathetic within a mile, and no problem.
Unless they threaten to throw him out for accessing the internet.
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- throwaway84742 9y agoI would be surprised if a Pringles can can do it. This stuff is symmetrical. If signal can get in and out from one end, it can also get in/out from the other, meaning MI6 would be able to listen in on their diplomatic correspondence. So there’s probably a serious Faraday cage around the place.
- dingaling 9y agoA Faraday cage at building-scale is just that, a cage to attenuate omnidirectional signals. The Pringles antenna for wifi, or a Yagi or parabolic dish, is strongly directional and can pass through the voids in a cage when aligned. It just needs 12.5cm between the cage elements, like a window.
- throwaway84742 9y agoWindow can too be a part of the cage, if special glass is used. I guess he could open a window, but I don’t think I’d test fate quite so brazenly if I was in his position.
- fit2rule 9y agoIt makes me wonder just how much of this is actually going on in the neighborhood around the Ecuadoran embassy .. there surely must be sympathetic folks living in the area that are more than willing to share their Wifi with Assange .. has anyone done any scanning in the area and discovered the open "JoinThisNetWorkJulian"-style wifi SSID's that are bound to be around there? Come to think of it, the nature of the Wifi environment around the embassy must, at the very least, be an interesting subject for a pen-test white-paper ..