-Caveat Lector-
Nortel's (or any similar) "power line internet" is a potential
back door into every non-battery powered (or non-isolated)
computer -- all via the power cord. Required: certain hardware
and/or software installed, infected, and/or embedded in the
targeted computer -- or other intelligent, networked appliance
(garage door opener, security system, HVAC controls, etc.).
(Hackers soon may be able to open American garage doors,
turn off burglar alarms, shut off air conditioners, etc..)
The required operability may (per Clinton Executive Order?)
be covertly built into modems, DSP chips, computer boards,
operating systems, trojan files, etc. -- by manufacturers
who would likely receive remuneration from "the authorities"
-- or it could be installed by "unauthorized tampering" or
network infection, etc.
"Progress" has been announced:
FBI, Cos. Strike Software Agreement
------------------------------------
September 14, 1999
(c) By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI reached a first-of-its-kind
agreement enabling telecommunications companies to use
computer software made by Nortel Networks to assist law
enforcement agencies in conducting lawfully authorized
wiretapping.
The agreement calls for Nortel, a major supplier of
telecommunications equipment, to provide certain software to
its carrier customers. Nortel will waive the license fees.
The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
authorized $500 million for the purpose of reimbursing the
telecommunications industry for its costs in cooperating with
law enforcement agencies in wiretapping.
"Carriers can now begin taking steps to correct technological
impediments within their networks that currently prevent law
enforcement from being able to carry out court-ordered
electronic surveillance directed at suspected criminals and
terrorists," Attorney General Janet Reno said in a statement.
The telecommunication carrier Ameritech also is a party to
the agreement. FBI Director Louis Freeh said the bureau is
working toward finalizing similar reimbursement agreements
with other carriers and manufacturers.
-------- Original Message -----------------------------------
From: Caigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999
Subj: [EWAR] Re: [MC] Evidence for microwave-induced
cerebral speech perception
Wes Thomas wrote:
> Electrical power 60 Hz (or 50 Hz in the U.K. and elsewhere)
> can be modulated, but given the massive amount of power
> required to impose a grid-wide signal, such modulation
> would appear to be easier to do on a local level (within a
> neighborhood, for example.) (I'm extrapolating here from my
> knowledge of high frequency RF modulation; this should be
> checked by someone knowledgeable in electrical power
> engineering.)
The way it's done in Europe won't work here - can't run the
NorTel signal through a transformer, and over here about 5-10
homes are served by one transformer. But see below - Enikia,
in Piscataway, New Jersey, seems to have come up with a
solution to that.
There are more than a few articles that touch on the
technology involved in 'mirroring' the 'Net on the Grid by
way of RF modulation; here are a few Links:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/print/980330/303358.html
Power Lines To Carry Data
By Carol Wilson
A new technology that delivers data over electrical utility
lines will be implemented this summer in the U.K. and, soon
after, is scheduled to pop up on electrical lines in Germany,
the Netherlands, Singapore and Sweden. The technology is
expected to hit the North American market next year.
Developed by Northern Telecom Inc. and United Utilities
PLC, a U.K. utility company, Digital PowerLine offers data
transport at speeds of up to 1 megabit per second in both
directions, but "it is much more than just a modem," said
Wayne Fothergill, vice president of marketing and business
development at Nortel (http://www.nortel.com).
Already, Fothergill said, 10 utility companies have signed on
as customers, and the company is working actively with 30
others.
Originally announced in October 1997, the second generation
of Digital PowerLine technology was demonstrated at the Cebit
exhibition in Hanover, Germany, last week. It will be
deployed by Norweb Communications, the telecommunications
unit of United Utilities, in the northwest portion of the
U.K. this summer. The product will be marketed worldwide by
NOR.WEB DPL, a joint venture company of Nortel and United
Utilities.
Norweb is setting up an intranet and will have locally cached
content for its customers, said Mark Ballett, the company's
managing director. "We can also give our customers a home LAN
[local area network] and become a true information utility."
============================
http://www.nortelnetworks.com/corporate/news/newsreleases/1997d/10_8_
9797389_Norweb.html
Nortel (Northern Telecom) and Norweb
Communications Achieve Technology
Breakthrough That Will Open a New Wave of
Internet Growth
LONDON - Nortel (Northern Telecom) and Norweb Communications,
a business unit of United Utilities plc. of Great Britain,
today announced that they have developed jointly a new
technology that allows data to be transferred over electrical
power lines into the home at speeds of more than one megabit
per second�up to 10 times faster than ISDN, currently the
fastest generally available speed. The breakthrough has the
potential to open a new wave of demand for Internet services
in the UK and Europe.
Nortel has developed the technology at its European Research
and Development laboratories in Harlow, UK, in co-operation
with Norweb Communications. Recent trials on the Norweb
Communications network have been completed successfully and
the technology is available for deployment.
The technology, which enables electrical companies to convert
their power infrastructures into information access networks,
will be initially marketed in the UK, Europe and Asia
Pacific.
It allows electrical companies to provide a service that
solves the three major problems facing international Internet
market acceptance�access to consumers� homes, data
transmission rates and capital cost:
+ By giving customers access to the Internet through their
existing electrical supply system, the technology is
available to virtually anyone. It offers permanent on-line
connection with the potential for lower charges;
+ The new technology enables data to be transmitted at rates
of more than one megabit per second by using a patented
technology that screens the data from electrical
interference on the host power line, a long sought-after
goal in telecommunications;
+ Investment costs for the electrical companies are low
compared to those envisioned for other broadband data
access systems. Due to the nature of this technology, it
can be rolled out in discrete, targeted phases. Utilities
not wishing to operate data services also have the option
of charging a right-to-use fee to an operating company for
accessing their plant. End users require a computer card
comparable in cost to a conventional ISDN terminal adapter,
but offering 10 times the peak bandwidth.
The new technology will enable the introduction of
Internet-based applications such as electronic commerce,
teleworking, web broadcast media, entertainment and Internet
telephony on a mass market scale.
=======================
http://www.nortelnetworks.com/corporate/news/newsreleases/1997d/12_11
_9797490_UK_School_Norweb.html
UK School is World's First to use High-Speed
Internet Over Electricity Power Lines
MANCHESTER, UK -- A Manchester school has become the world's
first public user of a technology breakthrough developed by
Nortel (Northern Telecom) and Norweb Communications that is
capable of delivering Internet and data access for the
general public at speeds up to ten times faster than today's
fastest home systems.
The technology, which enables electricity companies to
deliver Internet and other information services to
electricity customers, is attracting significant
international commercial interest, with business esquires
from over 150 utility companies, including most of the major
power utilities around the world.
The first public installation is at Seymour Park Primary
School in Trafford, Greater Manchester, where 12 personal
computers have been connected to the Internet by power line.
All 12 computers can operate concurrently from just one
connection , from which they obtain permanent access to the
Internet at speeds of up to 1 megabit per second.
Teachers at the school say that the new technology's high
data transfer rate overcomes the practical obstacles to using
the Internet as a teaching tool. Headteacher Jenny Dunn,
said: "The high-speed connection lets us really take
advantage of the educational potential of the Internet. With
a normal connection the children could lose interest waiting
for pages to download. The new system means information
arrives virtually instantaneously, thereby maximising
teaching time and keeping children on task. This set up is
amazingly flexible in educational terms and gives us the
additional medium with which to improve attainment in
schools."
=========================
http://europe.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/newsbytes/109667.html
Nortel, United Utilities Announce
Digital PowerLine Venture
March 25, 1998: 3:03 p.m. ET
LONDON, ENGLAND (NB) -- By Grant Buckler. Northern Telecom
Ltd. [TSE:NTL][NYSE:NT] of Brampton, Ont., Canada, and United
Utilities PLC have announced a joint venture to sell
Northern's Digital PowerLine technology worldwide. United
Utilities subsidiary Norweb Communications was one of the
first customers for Digital PowerLine, which allows data
transmission over ordinary electrical power lines.
<SNIPS> [Here's the Fly in the Ointment for the US:]
Deployment in North America is unlikely before next year,
because of differences in the power grid. In North America a
single transformer serves fewer homes than in most of the
world -- typically as few as six -- and as Digital PowerLine
cannot transmit data through a transformer, economics work
against it in that market. However, Fothergill said, Nor.Web
is working on applications for schools, campuses, and
multi-building environments where the transformer issue
could be avoided.
====================
http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/urcc/urcc_tide/715vande.htm
UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONSOLE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL (URCC)
1. Abstract
Proposed is a new nonproprietary standard being developed in
conjunction with the Infrared Data Association (IrDA) and
other groups to allow remote devices to control products
(target devices). Devices that could be controlled using the
URCC protocol include a wide variety of devices, such as
televisions, video recorders, stereos, kiosks, telephones,
air conditioners, microwave ovens, or any other product that
has electronic controls and displays. Devices that could be
used as controllers (remote consoles) could also vary widely.
They could be purpose-built special controllers, or they
could be laptop computers, personal digital assistants
(PDAs), augmentative communication aids, braille devices
(e.g., the Braille Lite (TM)), etc., running a small URCC
program.
URCC works over any medium, including infrared, RF, household
wiring, or the Internet. The primary current implementation
is via the IrDA infrared protocol (used on laptop computers,
for example). Since the protocol is intended for
implementation on standard electronic appliances,
international collaboration on its development is essential,
as is coordinating the protocol with other related efforts.
The goal is to have the protocol supported on any product
using remote controls, including televisions, stereos,
appliances, etc., as well as on products that do not
currently have remote console capabilities, such as public
information systems.
======================
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980530/nlamppost.html
The light programme
By Mark Ward
Ultrafast internet access via the electricity mains...it
sounded too good to be true, and perhaps it was. Trials of
the scheme in Manchester have hit an embarrassing snag.
Streetlamps using the same power supply as Net surfers are
acting as aerials and broadcasting downloaded data as
high-frequency radio waves.
If the current technology were to be widely used, experts
fear that sections of the radio spectrum could be swamped,
disrupting emergency communications, annoying amateur radio
buffs and interfering with the BBC World Service. Britain's
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has stepped in to
mediate between users of the affected frequencies and
NOR.WEB, the company developing the system.
NOR.WEB is a joint venture between the British energy
supplier United Utilities and the Canadian telecommunications
equipment company Nortel. Its Digital PowerLine system
transfers data between electricity substations and people's
homes using a 1-megahertz carrier wave riding on top of the
50-hertz AC electricity supply (New Scientist, print edition,
18 January 1997, p 18). The connection from substation to the
Internet is via a conventional high-bandwidth optical fibre.
The system can download data about twenty times as fast as
the modems used by most domestic Net useres, and also leaves
phone lines free. NOR.WEB is confident that it can bring
about a revolution in Net access. The company is marketing
the technology worldwide.
The Manchester trials delivered the impressive access speeds
that the system had promised. But the company's engineers
hadn't taken the physical characteristics of streetlights
into consideration. "If you set out to design radio aerials
to fit with this system, they would look like streetlamps,"
says Nick Long, chief engineer with Great Circle Design, a
radio systems consultancy based in Wincanton, Somerset. "They
are just the right vertical length of conductor." As a
result, data being downloaded by users of the system are
being broadcast as radio waves between 2 and 10 megahertz.
If the technology is not modified to remove this
interference, says Long, some sections of the radio spectrum
could become unusable. The online activities of Net surfers
using the system could also, in theory, be tracked by
monitoring the radio transmissions, he adds.
=====================
http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/columns/laura052199.htm
Points Of Presence
BY LAURA GUEVIN
Associate Editor, INTERNET TELEPHONY�
[May 21, 1999]
Don't Be Shocked: Voice Over Power Lines Is A Reality
At the recent Networld + Interop show in Las Vegas I was
overwhelmed by the number of companies offering Internet
telephony products and services in one form or another. But
one form of small office/home office (SOHO) networking stood
out to me -- in part, because I had never heard of a
practical implementation of the technology before, and in
part, because it actually worked. The transport vehicle is
the AC power lines that run throughout every home and
business, and the company that plans to run voice over them
is Enikia, Inc
<SNIPS>
Data Over Power Concept
Running data over power lines is not a new concept, and has
been happening for at least 25 years. But most solutions have
focused on low bandwidth transmission over a long distance,
as opposed to a home network. A quick search on the Web
produced power line modems that provide 9600 bauds of
connectivity -- not exactly enough for voice transmission,
but certainly functional for other types of data.
Microsoft licensed technology last year for high-speed data
transmission using chip technology from Intellon Corporation.
The project, called No New Wires, is also geared toward local
loops in homes or small campuses. Intellon's technology --
Intellon Enhanced Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
(IeOFDM) and Spread Spectrum Carrier (SSC) technology -- is
embedded on silicon to enable network capability on almost
any product, through electrical wiring and radio frequencies.
The company's products use the Consumer Electronics Bus
(CEBus) standard to ensure interoperability among component
parts of a network. Microsoft has not announced plans about
where or how it will market this technology.
=======================
http://www.enikia.com/technology.html
Enikia's Technology...
After two years of focused research, Enikia's technologists
unlocked the enormous capacity hidden in common electrical
wiring. Enikia's technology is rugged enough to supply
high-capacity, Ethernet-speed communications despite the
challenging environment that a home powerline network
provides.
...through common electrical outlets
By testing and studying the powerline, Enikia developed a
technology that adapts to even the harshest home powerline
environments. By embodying the technology in the form of a
standard Ethernet transceiver, Enikia has adapted the
powerline to comply with IEEE 802.3, and allows you to
connect to the powerline using off-the-shelf Ethernet
controllers.
When no longer restricted to computing in the traditional
context of a desktop PC, the next step in the information age
involves the idea of pervasive computing, where the network
technology itself is hidden to the user, behind intuitive,
device-specific interfaces which makes "using a computer" no
more complicated than using a traditional telephone,
microwave, or VCR.
============================
So, modulating the Grid with high-frequency signals *can* be
done, and in some instances it *is* being done.
Remember the 'Ultrasonic transmission of hypnotic commands'
posting this past Friday, 20 Aug 1999? The above-mentioned
technology certainly qualifies as an alternative modality.
RF signals run through home power lines could be transduced
by the skin of the folks living inside, in much the same way
as Flanagan's 'Neurophone'. Flanagan demonstrated this once
before, when he fed the signal from one of his boxes through
a wire running overhead in a room where he was giving a
seminar (wish I could find the account - thought it was up
on KeelyNet).
-Khem Caigan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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