techdirt.com — Claims made by Lt. Bob Lozito of the Sacramento County Sheriff?s Department's Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, who says that cantennas (WiFi antennas made of Pringles cans or like shapes) are "unsophisticated but reliable, and it?s illegal to possess them."
Jul 25, 2005 View in Crawl 4
realnebbyJul 25, 2005
Any chance anyone knows how to get in touch with Lt. Lozito and find out what law he thinks makes a cantenna illegal? If someone can find an email address for him a letter writing campaign could be attempted.
wackytJul 25, 2005
My example was for people who think all the FCC does is sell frequencies. They also regulate those frequencies to prevent interference from interlopers. Cantennas by themselves are not illegal. If when attached to a device it makes that device perform outside it's perscribed parameters, then both the device and the cantenna are illegal.
squirlJul 26, 2005
For those that want to share your personal/professional opinions with this individual that has no idea what he's talking about (and yet he's supposed to be an expert), feel free.Sacramento County Sheriff's OfficeJurisdiction: Sacramento County CaliforniaContact: Lt. Bob LozitoPhone: (916) 874-3030E-mail: rlozito@sacsheriff.com
pacobellJul 26, 2005
Mr. Lozito, you are officially a dumb ****. An antenna doesn't "amplify" signals, it _focuses_ them like an optical lense does with light. Someone needs to go back to school ¬_¬
buckeyeJul 26, 2005
A close friend of mine, who was chief of police of a major U.S. city, once told me: "Never ask a cop about the law. They know very little about it".This clown just proved that statement to be correct.
hackhenJul 27, 2005
Hell I've got 4 in my apartment facing in nsew... Muahaha 38db
daggettJul 28, 2005
See what Patrick Norton started! lol...or was it Kevin, my memories of TSS are a bit foggy these days.
keberaAug 2, 2005
i've looked thru all the threads and links on this and nowhere does it say what the actual range improvement is when using one or more of these cantennas. does it go from 50ft up to 200ft? 600ft? 2 miles?presumably, when it works the bandwidth isnt reduced in half as it is with those expensive wireless repeater devices...