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Originally Posted by Robbie
I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.
But the fact that you are saying that a 12 year old kid would steal an army communications vehicle, rewire it to find wireless, then pick up his classmates from school, create a grid of every major city and then systematically drive up and down every road looking for a wireless connection and then crack into wpa wireless all the while uploading porn and stealing govt. secrets just blows my mind.
Where the fuck do you come up with these crazy ass ideas anyway?
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but that point, i never mentioned stealing a military van, and driving around to hijack a signal i was talking about things like this
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Originally Posted by bossku69
i think thats kind of the basis for this, not protecting you the downloading queen, but the person who is to stupid to protect their wireless network. So the problem comes when your just some 40 year old lady who got a wireless router through her ISP to use with her laptop, now facing criminal charges 
I just checked and almost all my neighbors have an open wifi with no password protection. When I was in LA my neighbor had a wifi signal that was stronger than mine when I was in my living room and my stupid laptop would always try to connect to it (because he had the same SSID as the router at a clients office "linksys").
I used to get fed up and just log into his router (yes, he didnt even set a password besides "admin") and turn off his wifi. then about a day later i would see it turn back on and finally i never saw it again, but ironically that same day one started to pop up with "netgear" |
or this
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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
You are thinking driving around Rob, but many times there might be 10 or 15 neighbors able to jump on your connection. Thats more likely than someone driving around. If they can identify the mac id its more likely to narrow down who really did the upload, but thats a bit tricky. Also have to think of cantenna's etc. I've jumped on connections 1/4 mile down the road in a pinch before with a bit of aiming with a cantenna lol
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or this
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Originally Posted by d-null
you would be surprised how easy it actually is, I bet there are kids in every major city that are playing around with this kind of stuff already
and you don't need any elaborate "wireless sniffer", any laptop can do, and the antenna that sticky mentions can cover a pretty wide range, many blocks in all directions with a signal booster
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Originally Posted by u-Bob
Solving piracy should be about punishing the guilty, not extorting the innocent. And that's exactly what some of the big music and movie companies are resorting to: extortion.
Right now I'm in my living room... quiet suburban area... and my laptop can pick up 12 wireless networks. If I add a 7db omni-directional antenna ($45), I can pick up 30. If I add a 12db directional antenna ($70) and move around a bit, I can detect 70+ networks... So i'd say a 12 year old kid doesn't even need a special military van...
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that everyone else examples,
me own i live in a house in the london ontario, the forest city, with tons of trees between properties and i can still pickup the wireless signals of my neighbours with my laptop sitting in the middle of my house (with all the walls, trees, area of lawn etc acting as interference).
no one but you is taking about driving around in a military truck but you. That the point i was making you ignore all the reasonable ways this happens and jump to the unreasonable one to try and make your bogus point.