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Cops, Wifi, Treasure Hunts, And More!

Posted by timothy on from the look-ma-no-cat dept.

Rob Flickenger writes "This month's SeattleWireless TV show reveals how the Yakima County Police have built a wireless infrastructure using Cisco Aironet products. Utilizing omni and directional antennas, they cover 650 sq miles with just 8 access points. There is also a segment on the NzWireless group's wireless treasure hunt, where users roamed around the city plotting hidden access points set up for the hunt." Note the bittorrent link.

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  1. I live in Yakima... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    and frankly this scares the hell out of me.

    I have played with these. First of all, they are simply locked down so they will work with almost any Cisco MAC address. Other than that they are completely open.

    Once you connect to the AP, you can either telnet directly to the DB server and pull any records you wany, or you can connect to any other PD in Washington State (AFAIK). Atleast all the ones around here. It's basicly a huge private IP network using T1s, fractional T1s, and ISDN lines, all linking back to Olympia.

    Funniest part was when I got a call from the main office asking me to scan everything for viruses ASAP, since the windows-worm-of-the-week was making its rounds on the secure network.