[geeks] gps on plane

[Thomas Gallaway]

The thing is that 802.11 card in your laptop allways are looking for an 
access point to associate with even if it's set to a specific one. So 
there is allways packet's beeing send out called probe requests.


On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 06:48 PM, Hugh Saunders wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:03:36PM -0700, Mike F wrote:
>> Am I naive in thinking that they should just put a big shield around
>> the passenger compartments and be done with it?
>
>> Or is this actually a large
>> technological hurdle, to provide such shielding?
>
> What would you construct it out of? i have a feeling that it would be
> incredibly heavy [well in terms of avionics anyway] but then i dont 
> know
> much about radio/engineering/signal damping.
>
> I was interested hear that passive stuff may leak signal, i didnt know
> that. [like some 802.11 cards leak packets while running kismet [yeah i
> know thats different cause they are designed to transmit as well]]
>
> -- 
> hugh
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