FM radio signals do not work underground.\u00a0\u00a0 If you’re in a tunnel and your FM radio, Sirius\/XM or your cell phone are still working, it’s because the operator of the tunnel has installed repeaters inside the tunnel to retransmit the signals in and out of the tunnel.<\/p>\n
This week, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) got whiff that a group was planning a protest during rush hour with the goal of shutting down BART.\u00a0\u00a0 The motivation was related to the shooting of someone by a BART police officer.<\/p>\n
So BART decided that to prevent a Facebook revolution in its stations, they would turn off the cell phone repeaters, repeating the mistake that was the ultimate reason why Mubarak was toppled – people will put up with a lot of authoritarian government, but not turning off the Internet.<\/p>\n
As promised, the shadowy group Anonymous has retaliated – defacing BART’s web sites and demonstrating that they have the ability to steal customer data from BART’s computers.\u00a0\u00a0 BART has a lot of employees who work with their computers – it’s not a stretch in San Francisco to think some of them may be sympathetic to the hackers and leave the back doors open on purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FM radio signals do not work underground.\u00a0\u00a0 If you’re in a tunnel and your FM radio, Sirius\/XM or your cell phone are still working, it’s because the operator of the tunnel has installed repeaters inside the tunnel to retransmit the … Continue reading