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Signal jammin' @ SXSW
March 12, 2007


Make magazine's Phil Torrone and Limor Fried temporarily jam cell phone signals at SXSW 2007. You can too, at your own risk: Wave Bubble.

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Posted by Minnesota Stories on March 12, 2007 02:10 AM

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why are you claping them. they never invented it. plus really there is no application for that apart from showing that yet again, you have found some kind of POWER to corrupt.

Cool. But pointless.

Posted by: phil at March 12, 2007 02:57 AM

I'm mainly just documenting a techno-prank. But I do think it's crazy that this is illegal and carries such stiff penalties. You should at least be able to control the airwaves on your own property, which they discuss a bit here.

Posted by: chuck at March 12, 2007 03:28 AM

Chuck,

Thank you for posting this! I missed Limor's presentation and I'm so grateful to see this tidbit of it!

Laura

Posted by: Laura Moncur at March 12, 2007 06:43 AM

There is an entire realm of "control" here that boggles the mind. Who controls who? And even if you want to become a heavy about "property" and what happens on "your property" (take me back to 18th century notions of property rights and priviledge) we are talking about the airwaves here and not someones property.

What is common? What common rights do we possess that supercede individual "property" rights? The problem in this day and age is that these techno-geeks and spy vs. spy mentalities have no appreciation, training, or knowledge in ethics and the moral rights of individuals -- its all just signal-to-noise ratios? This lack of knowledge and humanity is very oppressive.

Posted by: Richard Prince at March 12, 2007 07:43 AM

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