How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:05 PM UTC

Piskvorrr wrote: post #5

MichailP wrote: post #2

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.

You know wifi operates in the microwave band, right? Microwave ovens operate in the 2.4 GHz band. Wifi is limited to 1 W total power output, but it's not nothing.

Edit: More to the point, it's a good question, even if the answer is "no."

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

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Post by a8da6b0c91d » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:06 PM UTC

Just use unencrypted wifi but do anything that matters over a good VPN. Assume you can't trust your ISP and local network anyway. All this moaning about wifi security doesn't make sense to me.

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

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Post by popctrl » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:06 PM UTC

1. Make the collar hijack any wifi devices it can and use their CPUs to mine dogecoin

2. Use earnings to create more collars, attaching them to stray dogs

3. Revel in your stray doge empire

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

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Post by martiuk » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:07 PM UTC

cookiemonster11 wrote: post #9

martiuk wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Non-Ionizing radiation means exactly that.

http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&Page&HPAwebAutoListName/Pa...

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

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Post by pconner » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:08 PM UTC

a8da6b0c91d wrote: post #12

Just use unencrypted wifi but do anything that matters over a good VPN. Assume you can't trust your ISP and local network anyway. All this moaning about wifi security doesn't make sense to me.

This requires you to trust the VPN, though.

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

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Post by bitJericho » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:19 PM UTC

popctrl wrote: post #13

1. Make the collar hijack any wifi devices it can and use their CPUs to mine dogecoin 2. Use earnings to create more collars, attaching them to stray dogs 3. Revel in your stray doge empire

so profit!

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

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Post by sbarre » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:32 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #6

Sounds like... http://www.jose-dogs-the-best-for-to-find-wifi.net/

Amazing, I was totally fooled

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

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Post by upofadown » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:34 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #11

Piskvorrr wrote: post #5

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.

You know wifi operates in the microwave band, right? Microwave ovens operate in the 2.4 GHz band. Wifi is limited to 1 W total power output, but it's not nothing. Edit: More to the point, it's a good question, even if the answer is "no."

There is nothing special about the use of 2.4 GHz for ovens. It is just where the regulations arbitrarily put that particular ISM band. Microwave ovens can work on 900 MHz as well.

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

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

upofadown wrote: post #18

sp332 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know wifi operates in the microwave band, right? Microwave ovens operate in the 2.4 GHz band. Wifi is limited to 1 W total power output, but it's not nothing. Edit: More to the point, it's a good question, even if the answer is "no."

There is nothing special about the use of 2.4 GHz for ovens. It is just where the regulations arbitrarily put that particular ISM band. Microwave ovens can work on 900 MHz as well.

Sure. And wearing a 900MHz one around your neck probably isn't a good idea either.

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

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Post by userbinator » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 2:41 PM UTC

a8da6b0c91d wrote: post #12

Just use unencrypted wifi but do anything that matters over a good VPN. Assume you can't trust your ISP and local network anyway. All this moaning about wifi security doesn't make sense to me.