cmaenginsb
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA
| WiMax/802.16 is not for the home consumer
The 802.16 standard and it's WiMax marketing subset are designed for metro area access meaning service providers and certain businesses with several offices in one city.
The real benefits that will be seen by an end consumer is that this technology has the potential to offer lower cost wireless internet services to compete with DSL and Cable. Additionally the costs should be low enough to allow for sufficient ROI in areas which currently do not make it interesting for companies to deploy in.
As to security. Anything that sends a signal that can be intercepted is insecure.
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
| said by cmaenginsb  :
As to security. Anything that sends a signal that can be intercepted is insecure.
I disagree. I don't believe that RF transmissions are more or less secure than wired connections. I would modify your statement to read that anything that is intercepted is a potential security risk and I see two potential risks:
1) The intercepted packet contains secret/sensitive information. If the information is not secret/sensitive, such as the current time of day, who cares if the interceptor reads it?
2) The intercepted packet is hijacked, modified and sent to the original destination and the original destination believes the modified packet is the sender's truth. Obviously this risk is extremely dangerous since even a simple time of day signal becomes a security risk.
I would guess that given the nature of the RF, it's probably harder to accomplish #2 than in a wired environment. |
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