Strong Angel II is a DARPA-funded effort to develop network technologies that can survive the roughest conditions (yeah, yeah, we all know the Internet was allegedly designed to survive a nuclear blast, yada yada). It's now underway on a lava field on the Big Island of Hawaii. Melanie Biggs, information coordinator for the exercise, is blogging it. She writes about the mysterious attacker that is taking down the Strong Angel wireless network:
" 'Mega Beam' is the designation (called an SSID) of the network. For the last three days, Mega Beam appears (sometime between 9:00 and 9:30 AM Hawaii Time) and degrades the Strong Angel II signal for approximately 45 minutes. This wreaks havoc in a wireless network with 45 users that may depend on internet connectivity to complete their tasks. ..."
Michael Helfrich is participating as well:
"Stepping off the plane, all I could see was lava fields fronting the ocean. It was hot, and the environment looked hostile. But, after thinking about it a bit, what better location to test new approaches for tactics in incredibly austere environments. Kona is it."
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