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Peter Coffee has an interesting article on the silently escalating war in the wireless space:
The threats to system function are diverse. Cornfield Electronics' TV-B-Gone is a digital shotgun, spewing out remote control power-switching codes from the same database that's built into any off-the-shelf universal remote control. Within a minute of activation, it will usually hit the infrared pulse code (or codes) to turn off any nearby TV unit. If you happen to have other devices in the area that use one of those codes, either by choice or by accident, then welcome to the world of collateral damage.
Things are only going to get weirder from there...
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