US Warships jamming Lebanon Internet

Steven Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sat Feb 12 22:44:03 UTC 2011


On Feb 12, 2011, at 4:05 41PM, denys at visp.net.lb wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:53:14 -0600, Jack Bates wrote:
>> On 2/8/2011 7:41 AM, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
>>> It is PLL LNB, one carrier, we are using full transponder 36 Mhz. There is
>>> almost no other users on this satellite (inclined more than 1.5 degree), and
>>> other carriers center frequency 100Mhz away.
>>> 
>> 
>> Since no one else will, "I blame solar flares!"
>> 
>> 
>> Jack
> 
> I am monitoring solar activity, getting info from NOAA. No correlation.
> 
Your suspicion may be accurate and accidental.  I rented a car in San Diego the other day -- there was a sign warning that the key fob might not work within 5 miles of the port -- San Diego has a major Navy base -- because of interference from shipboard electronics.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb









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