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Warspying in San Francisco

Posted by michael on from the peeping-thomas dept.

hak_fan writes "SecurityFocus has a story on a group of radio hobbiests in San Francisco who occasionally go out warspying for wireless cameras in the 2.4GHz band, using some customized equipment. Their latest expedition turned up some interesting finds."

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  1. Interesting Finds? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they found some interesting finds, they left them out of the article. They found exactally what you would think they would find... cameras pointed at places in offices... not the hot lesbian orgy that you would hope for. Besides, isnt this a dupe?

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  2. interesting finds alright... by I+Be+Hatin' · · Score: 5, Funny
    Their latest expedition turned up some interesting finds.

    From the article:

    A few other cameras pop up, but nothing exciting -- until the financial district, where on the same block as the office cam, MWD's receiver picks up the very freeway camera that marked the start of the expedition. The camera is more than two miles away, while most wireless video cameras have trouble reaching the curb. The appearance of the signal so far from its source energizes the team. "That's definitely the catch of the night there," says MWD.

    So the "catch of the night" is a freeway camera. Woo-hoo! Oh well, at least now I know there are bigger dorks than myself.

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  3. Re:Ugh. by El+Torico · · Score: 5, Funny

    The risk of seeing naked slashdotters makes me never want to go warspying.

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  4. Re:Maybe no lesbian orgies, but by swb · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a little detective work, MWD will eventually discover that the signal is a directional transmission from the camera to a local TV station that features the feed on its website and in its nightly newscast.

    So really the trick is to override their feed during the nightly news with more provocative content. It might be amusing to be real subtle about it, such as periodically putting footage from the wrong season or another time of day, CGI-ing the skyline (burning buildings, missing buildings, buildings that aren't really there, etc), using a different city skyline, etc. Just putting the goatse guy on would be a little less interesting.

    Ideally you'd have a reachable PC generating the video, with the ability to remotely switch between the real camera's feed and your feed to keep 'em guessing.

    All the more ironic that "The Conversation" was filmed in SF.

  5. War prefix now means roaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wardialing was coined after Matthew Broderick did that activity in the 1983 movie War Games. It was a little bit clever to mutate that into wardriving, but that took the prefix right up to the edge of Fonzie's ramp.

  6. Re:Ugh. by pyr0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean like this guy? And no, it's not goatse or tubgirl, although possibly just as disturbing because the guy is an idiot!

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