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Two items capture attention today – the article on the Storm Superworm, and the imagined future of an iPhone with Wimax.
I would add to that the the future of broadcast radio with Wimax – which was a side show mention at the PME conference last week.
Disruption of the network itself by the Storm worm is the first case of a concerted effort by a sophisticated and focused group against targets yet to be determined. Bruce Schneier’s article outlines about ten nefarious elements to the scheme – any one of which would qualify as evil in the informal / half joking sense. Add them up together, and it becomes an instrument for evil that could have incredible long term effect in the sense that it would truly be a technological and economic weapon. All that has to occur is for the vast distributed, ever morphing botnet to be rented out to the highest bidder.
Not being (apparently) state sponsored – distributed in nature – it sounds like the sort of enemy that we will fight for the long haul.
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Traditional carriers and broadcasters have got to be feeling the same way about the Wimax technology. One man’s overlay network is another man’s bypass – and you can be assured that there will be every angle taken to make that happen.
The Lucent-Alcatel merger is a good example of high hopes that turned out to be the trailing edge of a busness model on the skids and accelerating downward.
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The PME reference talk – presented by a long time talk radio consultant encouraged podcasters to think in terms of the opportunity: Wimax will very shortly put podcasters on an equal footing with the conventional broadcaster. And it will offer an advertiser a way to target an audience, without the need for a 50kW single channel.
We used to talk about WWV – at 2.5, 5.0 and 10.Mhz – characterized as a “signal you could weld with” .
Won’t need that any more.
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