Interviews
| CNN Television, May 16, 2004: Headline News, Cell Phone Jamming In response to a proposal by LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, Mike Outmesguine was interviewed as a technology analyst by Miguel Marquez of CNN. |
| CNN Television, May 8, 2004: Next @ CNN Warflying Over Los Angeles During a recent warflying experiment, with a CNN camera on-board, the team employed technology covered in Wi-Fi Toys Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 14. Including an airplane-to-airplane videoconference. |
| G4TechTV Television, September 16, 2004: The Screen Savers, 1 Mile Bluetooth Connection In this 5 minute video segment, Kevin Rose from The Screen Savers tags along on the attempts by Mike Outmesguine, James Burgess, John Hering, Martin Herfurt, and Kevin Mahaffey to pull data from a cellphone using Bluetooth from over 1 mile of Santa Monica beachfront. |
| KPFK Radio, August 26, 2004: Digital Village Interviews Mike Outmesguine and Frank Keeney on Wireless In this half-hour segment, all sorts of wireless topics come up, including new and existing wireless standards, Wi-Fi networking, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Toys, SOCALWUG, Wireless access in a disaster area like Hurricane Charlie, and more more more. Mike called in on a cellphone from Northern California and was listening to the show over streaming audio on a 3G cellular data connection. |
| Los Angeles UPN 13 Television, June 23, 2004: Wi-Fi Security During this 1 minute interview I spoke about Wi-Fi scanning and sniffing wireless networks. The story covered how wireless network popularity is growing, but that securing your Wi-Fi system is still tricky to install and use. |
| Wireless Tech Radio, July 7, 2004: SOCALWUG Mike speaks about the So Cal Wireless Users Group, Wardriving, and other neat wireless stuff. |
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Articles
| Headline News, Cell Phone Jamming In response to a proposal by LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, Mike Outmesguine was interviewed as a technology analyst by Miguel Marquez of CNN. Mike's understanding of wireless technology, radio frequency, and signal jamming helped bring together salient counterpoints to Sheriff Baca's proposal. |
| War Driving Misses Part of WLAN Picture This opinion article discusses some of the shortcomings of the May 31 Associated Press article. The opinion makes the strong point that using drive-by wardriving tools like those used in Chapters 5, 6, & 7 to measure security is not a complete survey - which is true. But it's still fun! |
| WarFlying Los Angeles During a recent warflying experiment, with a CNN camera on-board, the team employed technology covered in Wi-Fi Toys Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 14. Including an airplane-to-airplane videoconference. |
| Wi-Fi Popularity Open Security Holes The technology described in this widely carried news article is covered in Wi-Fi Toys Chapters 5, 6, & 7. Learn how to perform a wardrive and analyze the data later using mapping tools and Microsoft Excel. |
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Reviews
| Alaskan Apple Users Group Review C.D Smith writes "Building your own outdoor access point may be of particular interest to computer users in remote places like Alaska. With an explanation of how to make Wi-Fi accessible over distances of five miles, line of sight, this very practical chapter may be worth the price of the book." |
| Amazon.com Customer Reviews W Boudville writes "If the author had come of age in the 1920s, he'd have been one of those radio hobbyist freaks. Endlessly tinkering with his antennas for that little extra gain. Not unlike what goes on in this book! He writes for the hands on hardware gadgeteer." |
| The Inquirer, England UK Doug Mohney writes "Despite some of the spin, it is a great book, easily understandable, with plenty of photos and illustrations, and each project is logically documented. Even a reluctant screwdriver user such as myself got a warm fuzzy feeling from the clear step-by-step instructions for the initial projects.... Wi-Fi Toys is a must read for anyone who wants to learn more about Wi-Fi above and beyond plugging in their access point." |
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