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

[Joe Bowser]

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that I can currently get EDGE
coverage at Wreck Beach.  I know it's not the same, I'm just putting this
info out there.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Mark Eijsermans <
mark_eijsermans at warpmail.net> wrote:

> what about the idea of not jamming, but anonymously ringing peoples phones
> en masse with false connections. what's the legality of this?
>
> i have a picture in my head of everyones phone in the city ringing at the
> same time.
>
>
>
> On 23-Aug-09, at 4:43 PM, dan anderson wrote:
>
>  Burning Man is about to get cell phone service. If this succeeds, this
>> would be the end of any good that could come from the event. VHS would
>> be instant heroes to the Burning Man community if anyone knows of a
>> legal way to prevent cell phone use from happening. Jammers are
>> illegal down there, unfortunately. Is it possible to block the signal
>> with a physical wall? A farraday cage is kind of infeasible. Would it
>> be legal and feasible to draw (and pay for) enough energy out of the
>> grid to disable the station? If anyone has an idea of how to do this,
>> the BM list below and many others would be interested in hearing it,
>> and they'd definitely find enough people to take it and run with it.
>> Posting anonymously is fine too, they don't mind a bit.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: mike begley <spam at hell.org>
>> Date: 2009/8/22
>> Subject: [burningman-bcwa] Uh oh...
>> To: burningman-bcwa at yahoogroups.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Apparently there's cell service on the Playa.
>>
>> http://blog.burningman.com/?p=4916#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_cam
>> paign=is-it-hot-enough-for-ya
>>
>> So another big topic at the morning meeting, besides the
>> heat, was the cellphone situation.
>>
>> What you might have heard by now is actually true. There
>> IS cellphone service on the playa. It's not just in Gerlach.
>> It's also available out in the desert, at least some of the
>> time.
>>
>> We were talking to Camera Girl, and she said a private
>> outfit leased some land out near the Frog Pond and has
>> installed a tower that is providing service to the
>> playa. It has nothing to do with Burning Man. The Burning
>> Man people are not behind it.
>>
>> There were a lot of boos and hisses when Logan said he heard
>> his phone making the familiar sound that he had a text
>> message. "I looked down, and I had four bars!" he said.
>> Someone in the crowd shouted, "I had five!" Someone else
>> shouted, "Call me later!"
>>
>> But it's an interesting development, obviously. ... You are no
>> longer officially "out of reach" when you come to Burning Man.
>> You can't tell the office, or your significant others, "Hey,
>> sorry, you won't be able to get a hold of me."
>>
>> Of course, you have to remember that no one comes to Burning
>> Man for "a solitary experience," as E put it. I mean, if you
>> want to get away from it all and be out of reach, this is not
>> the place. This is a very social setting.
>>
>> But still, cellphones will change everything. (There's a lot
>> of thought that after the first couple of hours after the
>> gates open, the service will be overwhelmed and no one will
>> be able to use the phones anyway, so it may be much ado about
>> not much.)
>>
>> I thought Camera Girl had a pretty good common-sense take on
>> the whole thing when she said, "My phone has an off button,
>> and I know how to use it."
>>
>> And I thought Blondie, from the Center Camp crew, had a good
>> point too when he said that if you're always able to be in
>> touch with your group out here, if you never get lost and find
>> yourself wandering around all alone, you'll never have some of
>> the unbelievably random but happy coincidences that happen
>> when you're forced to be off by yourself.
>>
>> And I do think it'll be weird if there are people walking
>> around yakking on the phone. And I do NOT want to read Twitters
>> or Tweets or Facebooks or anything else about what happens out
>> here. I would not look on that as a good development at all.
>> Annoying in the extreme for those people here and for the
>> people back at home, IMHO.
>>
>> Oi. Time to start building portable cell phone jammers.
>>
>> -mike
>>
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