[Vanhackspace] chance for VHS to do a good community hacking deed

[Colleen Vince]

Roaming squads of people mocking anyone seen using their phones.

1998-2000 I was one of the rangers, and people decided to try and jam
any frequency they could. Brief distribution to the rangers
communication system happened. As much as cell phones at burning man
kind of suck. Anything more than peer pressure is going to just make
angry nasty confrontations that rangers have to deal with (or even
worse parish counties finest).

I am picturing a Portland Cacophoniesque disgruntled postmen squad or
people screaming "Can You Hear Me Now" over megaphones.

Ex-ranger Lithium

On 8/24/09, dan anderson <dan.j.anderson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Furthermore, conspiring to disrupt cellular (and by extension 911)
>> services, in a foreign country, in a public forum? Are you kidding
>> me?!
>
> Note the emphasis on 'legal'. And ethically, there was no 911 prior to
> this year. If people can't show up to an event which explicitly asks
> participants to be aware of survival issues and then, you know,
> survive... well, they done fucked up. Wander into the desert without
> water, even at burning man, and you've Darwinned yourself.
>
>> , it would interfere with the OpenBTS _legal_ mini-GSM network
>
> OpenBTS at Burning Man is like the EFF director's internet at Burning
> Man. Nifty and grand, but a small enough scale that it's not
> disruptive. A cool project, and not at all financially motivated.
>
>> Unless the company running that full tower has provisioned enough service
>
> Considering the astounding amounts of income from roaming charges, and
> the relatively small size of 40k users, I would expect that yes, their
> infrastructure will be capable. I certainly hope it isn't.
>
>> I believe in this case that an old fashioned solution is best: Super
>> soakers!
>
> Yeah, there will be some community policing. But if one soaks someone
> and the water breaks their phone, one's a criminal.
>
>> Have a computer or two generating requests for attention from the tower at
>> a higher rate than it can handle
>
> Wouldn't this count as jamming? If this would be legal I'll pass it on
> immediately, and I expect it'd be implemented.
>
> -D
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