[sneak]

It's ridiculously easy to disrupt low power wireless networks of any kind, no matter what the protocol or standard.

Anyone can make the whole mesh stop working today, even without a password.

[londons_explore]

With Wifi, I can easily disrupt within a few hundred yards of my house. But disrupting something a few miles away is much harder.

With a mesh network, the network is much bigger, which makes it important an attacker can only disrupt their small corner of the network.

[ac29]

> But disrupting something a few miles away is much harder.

If you follow the rules. Presumably an attacker wouldn't care about that, and would be happy to dump a few orders of magnitude extra power into their jamming signal.

[jessaustin]

Yeah, and if they had gasoline and matches they could go around and burn down everyone's houses. The point is that the protocol shouldn't have a flaw that allows local traffic to have harmful nonlocal effects.

I think FCC still cares about jamming signals, although they might make an exception for inexpensive mesh networks...

[177tcca]

A big one set off from a mile up is the normal way science fiction predicts the chaos begins.