Keyless car locks jammed

[avram]

From the WiFi Weblog: on Fri 20 Feb 2004, remote keyless car locks just stopped working in Las Vegas for a while. More from ReviewJournal:

John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a defense and intelligence policy organization based near Washington, D.C., said military technology could easily be responsible for Friday’s phenomenon. One such operation is jamming, which involves the release of electromagnetic energy to interfere with an enemy’s radar detection capability.

Pike noted that particularly in Nevada, the military has a number of unacknowledged programs in jamming and radar and high-powered microwave weapons, any of which might have the potential to bring chaos to certain frequencies. [...]

News reports of a similar phenomenon several years ago in Washington state suggested the outages were linked to the arrival of military aircraft carriers to Bremerton.

In March 2001, the keyless entry failures began at the same time the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson returned to Bremerton. Then in April of that year, the outages began one day after the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

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[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I wonder what kind of pulses it takes to get that effect. On related issues, the last time I looked at the arguments, I thought the brain-cancer-from-cell-phones thing was probably a false alarm, but the all-sorts-of-weird-shit-from-living-by-power-lines stuff looked real.