• skolor
    +3

    Why would the NSA/FBI be afraid of this? Using high power directional antennas would make it relatively easy to pinpoint where the user is physically located, assuming you could get equipment in the general vicinity you knew they were operating in. The FBI, at least, fairly conveniently already has field offices throughout the country that should make that fairly simple to do.

    My guess: some company sent a letter that this was infringing on their patent. As far as I can tell, Rhino Security Labs is just Caudill, and prior to this ProxyHam stuff they made most of their money selling managed firewalls to small companies. I know if I was in that situation I would almost certainly react the same way. He's gotten a ton of publicity for this, will get even more, and if anyone prospective client asks in the future he can just say "My lawyers have informed me not to discuss the matter."

    That's not to say that this isn't a government agency leaning on him, they certainly have enough non-technical people in management who would charge ahead, but there's a decent history of people giving talks at Defcon and pulling out because a company threatened legal action.