Train a small animal such as a ferret to hit the WPS button on any popular access point and let it loose in their home?
No need when there is Reaver: https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
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#72Am I the only one seeing this? http://www.imgur.com/ukYNQFL.png Makes the article totally unreadable on chro.a beta for android (nexus 5)
I didn't see that problem. http://virtivia.com:27080/1omz54cqhj8ms.png
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#73OT: 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.
Outdoor cats generally don't really get lost, they get flattened by cars or eaten by coyotes depending upon where you live, neither of which a GPS is going to help with. On rare occasions they get snatched up by animal control. For anyone with a cat, I highly recommend getting it microchipped (in case they get out and happen to fall into that last category) and making it indoor-only. The average lifespan of an outdoo…
I'm pleased to hear this advice, we got a cat a year ago and she has been indoor-only since we got her. We do let her out on a harness with us alongside to sniff around outdoors, and she loves it (and is sad to return inside). I feel somewhat vindicated in making her indoor-only.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outdoor cats generally don't really get lost, they get flattened by cars or eaten by coyotes depending upon where you live, neither of which a GPS is going to help with. On rare occasions they get snatched up by animal control. For anyone with a cat, I highly recommend getting it microchipped (in case they get out and happen to fall into that last category) and making it indoor-only. The average lifespan of an outdoo…
I'm pleased to hear this advice, we got a cat a year ago and she has been indoor-only since we got her. We do let her out on a harness with us alongside to sniff around outdoors, and she loves it (and is sad to return inside). I feel somewhat vindicated in making her indoor-only.
That's awesome that you bring her out on a harness. I wish my cat would let me do that, but she won't; she's pretty anxious in general (adopted her when she was 2 and she had been in the shelter twice already) and still has a lot of issues (she's very loving/lovable, but very afraid of strangers, especially males).
Her anxiousness stops her from wanting to run off though, which is really, really rare for a cat, so I hang out with her on the deck in front of my place a lot so she can be "outside" but in a safe way and she doesn't leave the deck area (prior to her I wouldn't have believed this of any cat, because I grew up with some cats and all of them would attempt to run out if given the chance).
IMO indoor cats can have a perfectly fulfilled life if their owners put in some effort (regularly engage them in play that uses their built-in-hunting instincts, mine loves to chase laser pointers and play with a bird feather on a string thing, the one I use is called "Da Bird", but I'm sure other brands exist).
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Non-ionizing radiation has biological effects. Magnetic fields have biological effects. This is not controversial! Many replicated experiments prove it! I am not going to say Wifi causes cancer because I don't know (doubt it). But this reflexive bleating about non-ionizing radiation needs to stop. Radio waves do not have to break DNA to affect biological tissues. They can alter many important chemical reactions.
You could say the same thing about a summer breeze. They have biological effects too.
Your point being? I dare say spending most of each day out in a continuous breeze might have some noteworthy effects. Skin disease?
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#77OT: 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.
Outdoor cats generally don't really get lost, they get flattened by cars or eaten by coyotes depending upon where you live, neither of which a GPS is going to help with. On rare occasions they get snatched up by animal control. For anyone with a cat, I highly recommend getting it microchipped (in case they get out and happen to fall into that last category) and making it indoor-only. The average lifespan of an outdoo…
About a year ago our cats went from free-range to contained. We now have a contained outdoor area for them which I’ve dubbed the “cat terrarium” as it is outside my office window so I get to watch them prowl while I’m working. Photos and design explanation here: http://www.michevan.id.au/content/cat-terrarium/
A year later it has worked pretty well. I had to put some more netting along the bottom of the fence when the neighbour moved a garden bed on their side of the fence which opened up a gap they could get through. But apart from that, their escapes have always been via a door left open too long, not via the terrarium.
I really need to set up some more toys and stuff for them out there sometime. Any ideas?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could say the same thing about a summer breeze. They have biological effects too.
Your point being? I dare say spending most of each day out in a continuous breeze might have some noteworthy effects. Skin disease?
Something having biological effects proves absolutely nothing.
Non-ionizing radiation has biological effects. Magnetic fields have biological effects. This is not controversial!
So?
Also, if you are worried that spending a lot of time "exposed" to a light breeze is going to give you skin disease, you might want to read about hypochondria because you have it.
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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.
If a murder weapon is found in your house, you're going to have a really hard time explaining that "I was just holding it for a friend." Just sayin' ...
That's a terrible analogy. Courts in the US have been widely rejecting IPs as the basis of copyright lawsuits, see:
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2014/03/25/florida-judge-rejects...
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security/297475-ip-address-no...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/10/court_nukes_ano...
P.S. Downvotes on HN do not mean "I disagree".
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WiFi APs do not have a power output of zero. Think about it for a minute, it makes no sense whatsoever.
"Zero, give or take measurement errors." As related to the GP's assumption "seems a bit harsh to the cat" - in other words, "why are you microwaving your cat, you monster!!111!", not as related to data transfer. Edited to add the direct quote.
"Zero, give or take measurement errors."
Still does not make any sense. It's completely wrong.