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And the wreck is surrounded by a hacker's fielday!
Methinks the hackers' field day is about to commence….
Do I have my calendar right; this is not some perverse April-fools stunt about the FCC, is it?
I've previously predicted on these pages that hackers and the hacking fraternity will move down from the higher software OSI layers to the lower ones, 2 and 3, where hardware rules the day.
Hackers will see BPL / PLC as a new challenge; every power outlet is now a potential access site for a hacker with a "Tandy- $1-Special" jammer--contrived from a dollar's worth of components from any electronics store. Jamming may become the norm and chaos might reign. Soon I'd expect we'll see articles on WAREZ sites about how to make the most cost effective jamming device together with lots of competitive circuits with each expounding the virtues of how effective its jamming is.
In the meantime, I'd suggest the rest of us brush up on the law to see what provisions it offers to sue the commissioners, FCC or its staff, the power utilities or their engineering consultants for negligence. Let's be blunt about it, the FCC's actions (and those who have lobbied it) are nothing more than irresponsible and negligent and the law ought to take its retribution--even if it takes a decade or more to do so.
Eventually, this BPL 'disaster' will turn into a real disaster, and when it does then we'd ought to be ready to sue those responsible. Remember, any disaster resulting from the consequences of introducing BPL is definitely no force majeure, as these FCC commissioners have been told time and time again about the major problems of introducing BPL services, and yet they've been nothing but fully complicit in its introduction.
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