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'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games
schwit1 writes with news from London that Olympic venues are being patrolled by so-called "Wi-Fi police," who seek out and shut down unauthorized access points and hotspots. BT is the "official communications services provider" for the Games, so access points other than the ones they set up or approve have been disallowed. A picture tweeted from the Olympics shows a gentleman carrying a portable direction antenna that can localize sources of transmission and interference.
"One possible aim of shutting down such WiFi access points is to cut down on interference with essential wireless communications being used by those refereeing, reporting on and working at the sporting events. ... The news of the WiFi crackdown has angered many of those following the Games online, who were already upset at Olympic authorities' attempts to limit the use of social networking tools at the Games at certain times. The London Olympics had been billed as the first 'social media Games,' but organizers have been accused of bungling the effort to seamlessly integrate popular technologies like Twitter and Facebook into the event."
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If I were in the area, I'd be tempted to set up a few of the old linksys routers that cut out now and then in strange places (just powered, not networked).
Make it a little more challenging for them to find the real "WiFi Offenders"
Or put your phone in Hotspot mode then put it in your wasteband of your pants. When he comes by and points that ridiculous thing at your crotch, just say "yep, guilty as charged, your hunk detector worked like a charm" and then dare him to get close enough to stop your wifi signal.
These "wi-fi police" are clearly infringing on the exclusive intellectual property rights of the Metropolitan Police Service, The Official Police Force of the Olympic Games®.
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What we need are a few people to run the 'fakeap' program to create thousands of "access points" for them to chase :-).
...wasteband of your pants.
Wasteband...you mean a diaper? Wouldn't the phone get dirty?
Ezekiel 23:20
Soon after, Coe backpedalled so rapidly that if he was seated backwards on a bike he'd win a gold medal in cycling.
My web domain.
They didn't ban personal portable EMP devices. Stand next to the guy with the silly antenna and press the button. Bang...no more detecting, mister!
Ezekiel 23:20
Is there anything about the Olympics that isn't corrupt and disgusting?
Maybe (slightly...) less doping than in the Tour de France?
or maybe it'd grow to mutant proportions.... a thousand comic books can't all be wrong, can they?
The Olympics--where everyone gets paid except the athletes who actually do the work.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Drown the area in hotspots named "Burger King", "Pepsi" and similar using directional antennas.
That would cause some amusement.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
I'd be more inclined to flash the old routers, put on tomato, make catchy AP names, then limit all outgoing IP activity to goatse.
Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
Hook some 3g routers up to batteries and tie them to cats. Set the cats free and grab some popcorn.
"You found my Hot Spot baby!"
6 inches in Yankee speak. I understand that's about average. Well, it's not about the length of the vector, it's about how you apply the force.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
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