I leave my wifi open because I like being a nice neighbor. A little QoS and a firewall for my home network, and you're free to connect.
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
#42What 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.
Non-ionizing seems like a safe level.
Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
#43OT: Actually a useful device for cats would be a collar that tracks GPS location and answers its location when pinged. Then they can be easier found and won't get lost.
Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
#44OT: Actually a useful device for cats would be a collar that tracks GPS location and answers its location when pinged. Then they can be easier found and won't get lost.
I think there are issues. Radios need quite a lot of power, while batteries must be very light and compact to not bother the cat (otherwise a collar would be eventually removed - a cat will surely find a way to do so)
I'm really surprised the cat in the article didn't tear off the collar on the first occasion.
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#45I am interested in building a device like this (for other purposes and not for cats), but I have no idea how to put the hardware together or where to start. I have been thingking about bycicle security a lot lately and a tiny GPS + X (gsm, wifi, etc.) might me useful.
Could someone point me in the right direction? Where do I start?
Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
#46I leave my wifi open because I like being a nice neighbor. A little QoS and a firewall for my home network, and you're free to connect.
I've always wondered if leaving your WiFi open gives you plausible deniability WRT to torrenting copyrighted material (should anyone ever come knocking).
Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
#47What a beautiful cat
Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed: 1 W is the legal _maximum_ as per FCC rules, part 15. Not even all APs are broadcasting at this power level, this is a WiFi client (meaning that it's only transmitting a few milliseconds out of a second), and this is several orders of magnitude below the power levels used by microwaves. In other words, it is "nothing" for the purpose of cooking your cat's brain. This would be "guilt by association: microwave…
It's not "association". Wifi literally is microwaves. They're just not very strong ones.
He's not talking about wifi's association to microwaves, he's talking about microwaves' association to microwave ovens, and the implication that anything else using microwaves will have a similar effect.
The electrons flowing through a AA battery are literally the same thing you get out of a 240V appliance outlet, but nobody worries about zapping themselves to death just because the battery makes an electric current.
Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
#49I leave my wifi open because I like being a nice neighbor. A little QoS and a firewall for my home network, and you're free to connect.
I've always wondered if leaving your WiFi open gives you plausible deniability WRT to torrenting copyrighted material (should anyone ever come knocking).
AFAIK it's always been one of the bigger gray areas regarding pirating copyrighted material. From what I've read it's still a "we have no formal proof that people are prosecuted based on it, but we also have no proof that they aren't/can't be".
Also, read https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel... as linked below in this thread.
Re: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
#50I leave my wifi open because I like being a nice neighbor. A little QoS and a firewall for my home network, and you're free to connect.
I've always wondered if leaving your WiFi open gives you plausible deniability WRT to torrenting copyrighted material (should anyone ever come knocking).
I doubt it makes a difference. Just having some server logs and an IP isn't really sufficient proof in the first place. Just because web requests come from my IP doesn't mean that I made those requests (it could be a friend, relative, hacker).
Computer forensics would be required to link the requests to a specific computer and person. Your ISP is probably still free to just ban you though.