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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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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.

And you're free to sniff my traffic and hack my phone :) " rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8151516>

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

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post #49

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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.

It is from 2008 though, things have changed. Just today a domain was seized by the UK govt on grounds of copyright infringement just because it was running a proxy. In Austria someone was convicted for running a Tor exit node about a month ago.

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

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I've always wondered if leaving your WiFi open gives you plausible deniability WRT to torrenting copyrighted material (should anyone ever come knocking).

I think the EFF has been pushing this idea recently.

They have, but it only concerns the USA, completely ignoring the rest of the world while still calling on everyone to open their networks. Understandable as they're an American organization, but annoying as a non-American. Almost as annoying as the NSA considering anyone with a non-American IP address a potential terrorist.

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

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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.

Related: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel...

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

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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

I can imagine the morning news channels shouting out, "Experts say, don't let stray animals into your house, they may contain viruses. Several home owners say they've been infected with the lucrative HazCheeseburger virus."

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

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post #57
post #45

I 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?

I love this thing. full computer, i.e. install ubuntu and go, yet it's way smaller and more powerful than a raspberry pi. https://store.gumstix.com/index.php/products/620/ the problem you will run into is wifi eats a lot of power and makes a lot of heat

Thanks, I will have a look at it!

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

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Non-Ionizing radiation means exactly that. http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&Page&HPAwebAutoListName/Pa...

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.

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

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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.

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' ...

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