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Re: Implications for wearables

From: Alex Feinman <>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:29:15 -0400

Chris Thompson wrote:
> Thought you might find this interesting.  This fellow has come up with a
> home made HERF (High Energy Radio Frequency) gun to disable computers from a
> distance. All this for a mere $500 in parts you can get at radio shack.
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2331772,00.html
> 
> What might be the implications for computer wearers. Is this the beginning
> of drive-by wearable computer infoshootings? Just imagine the headlines,
> "The InfoShot heard round the world."

Wow - this strikes me as about as useful a pastime as the people who used to
hot-rod automatic garage door openers and go around opening everyone's doors
late at night. Yay.

(Of course, I *liked* the punks who took foam noodles and went around biking
along and bopping peoples' cars to set off the alarms...as long as it was in
the middle of the day...)

Time to re-harden my wearable plans, I guess. Anyone know what would suffice
to protect, oh, say, the usual PC-104-style computers people talk about? One
really well-constructed Faraday cage? Tin foil?

> thanks,
> -chris thompson

Alex Feinman

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