On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 09:44 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On 04/03/16 09:33, Karl Auer wrote: > > - wireless is a broadcast medium and thus trivially > > eavesdroppable.[...] > > Fibre does not require any such protection > > because it is not a broadcast medium. > > Actually PON (passive optical network, the type of fibre install used > for FTTP) IS a broadcast medium and also needs encryption to prevent > eavesdropping.
You are right of course. Another reason to not want PON. But for all those other reasons, fibre, whether a PON system or not, is still a far better solution than wireless. And not just technically - on every level. It is a mystery to me why apparently sane people, especially apparently sane people with a techy education, continue to tout satellite and wireless as peer technologies to fibre. It may be cynical of me, but I can only assume they have ideological or political reasons for doing so. When "thought leaders" - or worse, actual leaders - do it, it makes me downright angry, especially when I know that they know better. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B Old fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link