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What about XFinity, which by default shares the wifi you pay for with strangers to create access points around the city?
As of a few years ago, you could simply spoof your MAC to that of a Comcast subscriber with these and you'd get unrestricted access on the hotspot.
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Enemy of the State is a pretty good light weight successor of that movie as well. It's such a fun watch too. (RIP Gene Hackman)
I just finished re-watching EotS — really advanced tech portrayal for a late-90s film. Quote (from movie): "just think, all this technology is already twenty years old..." Much better than The Conversation , but the links were uncanny (including Hackman's line: "yeah this has been my office where I do things for a long time*" — and it's the same set[up]). EotS honestly has the best death finale scene I've ever seen (…
However in terms of tech, there's the scene where they have CCTV footage from the lingerie store where the top dog wants the operator to see the other side of the package and asks if it's possible. The answer is not the typical CSI "zoom in .. there!" but goes like "the computer can take us to the other side?" , "it can hypothesize". Still not exactly super accurate in terms of possibility but I think AI nowadays would actually do precisely that, hypothesize and show you something.
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It's possible that he's taking "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" to its logical if unhealthy extreme by interpreting every ambiguous 802.11 frame as one with ill intent. However, just because he's paranoid doesn't mean there aren't misaligned people, devices, and applications out there probing networks. It's probably a good idea for anyone to check themselves every now and then by playing Angel's Advocate ju…
Fair enough, but in this case there are several massive red flags that OP was experiencing a variant of "targeted individual" delusion. (The confidence without evidence that their neighbor was a determined hacker group, using a complex zero-day to attack them at home personally, tie-ins to fear/belief of this being a widespread phenomenon). I had a stretch of a year or so a decade ago where I was going through someth…
Given the complexity of modern 802.11 protocols and the prevalence of WiFi radios in devices of all kinds, I find it well within the realm of possibilities for anyone to observe 802.11 traffic that is sufficiently ambiguous to create the confidence necessary to be a mentally workable substitute for evidence of a targeted attack. There may be a lot of evidence that could be found to refute that very same premise, though, if one knows what to look for.
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I just finished re-watching EotS — really advanced tech portrayal for a late-90s film. Quote (from movie): "just think, all this technology is already twenty years old..." Much better than The Conversation , but the links were uncanny (including Hackman's line: "yeah this has been my office where I do things for a long time*" — and it's the same set[up]). EotS honestly has the best death finale scene I've ever seen (…
I love a few scenes. My favorite is the mob restaurant scene with the "tape" business. The whole thing is great. However in terms of tech, there's the scene where they have CCTV footage from the lingerie store where the top dog wants the operator to see the other side of the package and asks if it's possible. The answer is not the typical CSI "zoom in .. there!" but goes like "the computer can take us to the other si…
Best sudden-shootout scene in any movie ever, IMHO.
>hypotehsizing
LLMs can definitely hypothesize. I'm about a third of the way into Cormac McCarthy's major works, and he definitely makes several interesting arguments on what he considers [enough] for consciousness [to exist]. His short essay on Benzene's discovery [0] is quite interesting (about languageless communication) if you can entertain œtherial out of body influence(s)...
[0] The Kukule Problem