Hack in the box: Can Faraday cages tame Wi-Fi?

Say you wanted to protect your Wi-Fi network from surrounding buildings. The most obvious way to do this would be to secure the devices on your network using the wireless security protocol of choice. A very effective, but more extreme, way to do this would be to secure the building itself by making it act as a Faraday cage, shielding the radio frequency waves used by Wi-Fi. Making a large building into a Faraday cage involves encasing the building in a thin layer of conductive material or metal mesh. In physics, a Faraday cage or Faraday shield - named for the British physicist Michael Fara... more...

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Originally Posted on 8/27/2006 3:31:43 PMContent source: http://www.feed24.com/go?item_id=27834696