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How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

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Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

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What about level of non ionizing radiation the cat is exposed to? Cats head is always in near field of antenna, seems a bit harsh to the cat.

Also, the device is probably passive, sniffing and logging, but not sending anything. Why would it?

Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

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What about level of non ionizing radiation the cat is exposed to? Cats head is always in near field of antenna, seems a bit harsh to the cat.

1. it's a WiFi client, in other words, mostly receiver.

2. even if it were an AP, transmitting at max power for hours, it would give out very limited power (zero, give or take measurement errors).

3. you're starting from assumption "wifi baaaad" without anything to support that claim; if it were a nuclear device, I'd see a cause for concern. [citation-sorely-needed] for this assumption.

Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

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What about level of non ionizing radiation the cat is exposed to? Cats head is always in near field of antenna, seems a bit harsh to the cat.

1. it's a WiFi client , in other words, mostly receiver . 2. even if it were an AP, transmitting at max power for hours, it would give out very limited power (zero, give or take measurement errors). 3. you're starting from assumption "wifi baaaad" without anything to support that claim; if it were a nuclear device, I'd see a cause for concern. [citation-sorely-needed] for this assumption.

WiFi APs do not have a power output of zero. Think about it for a minute, it makes no sense whatsoever.

Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

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What about level of non ionizing radiation the cat is exposed to? Cats head is always in near field of antenna, seems a bit harsh to the cat.

Watch out for those chemtrails you nut.

This is a bit of a stretch. Chemtrails are a baseless assumption. EM radiation has a measurable effect matter. Why not make valid points instead of insulting people?

Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. it's a WiFi client , in other words, mostly receiver . 2. even if it were an AP, transmitting at max power for hours, it would give out very limited power (zero, give or take measurement errors). 3. you're starting from assumption "wifi baaaad" without anything to support that claim; if it were a nuclear device, I'd see a cause for concern. [citation-sorely-needed] for this assumption.

WiFi APs do not have a power output of zero. Think about it for a minute, it makes no sense whatsoever.

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