Attackers could intercept terahertz wireless networks

Published October 18, 2018 This content is archived.

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An article on Futurity reports on research by Josep Jornet, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, that shows it is possible to steal data undetected from terahertz wireless links, even though those links involve beam transmissions from the transmitter to the receiver.

“Cylinders have the advantage that they scatter light in all directions, giving an attacker more options in setting up a receiver,” he said. “And given the physics of terahertz wave propagation, even a very small cylinder can significantly scatter the signal without blocking the line-of-sight path.”

Read the article here.