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In reply to the discussion: Please consider opening your WiFi for others. [View all]Mariana
(14,857 posts)78. Those visits from the feds are fucking scary.
They're intimidating as hell (although I'd bet MineralMan is not as easily intimidated as I am). I had them at my door, about a year and a half ago, asking to come in and take a look at our computers. They didn't have a search warrant, so I told them no. They went away and I haven't seen or heard from them since. I don't know if they were on a fishing expedition or what. No one in my house has been involved in such things, and our wireless network wasn't unsecured.
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WPA/WPA2 is generally quite secure, but if WPS is enabled they found a hack for it.
joshcryer
Nov 2012
#81
If you want to take that risk it's fine by me but I won't and my lawyer does not work for free
Jersey Devil
Nov 2012
#16
"Demonstrating" your innocence might mean having every computer, smart phone...
Silent3
Nov 2012
#23
You trust a SWAT team executing a 5 a.m. search warrant for your devices...
Earth_First
Nov 2012
#34
you do realize you have to go to jail first before you go to court to "demonstrate"
datasuspect
Nov 2012
#94
thank you for a most excellent, and thoughtful, idea. this is what being a community is all about.
niyad
Nov 2012
#13
That's real nice but it won't protect you from all the problems that they spoke of in posts above.
xtraxritical
Nov 2012
#27
I get my wifi from nearly 3/4 of a mile away and I share that connection with my next door neighbor
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
#24
Try some "Son of A Gun" on your rollers, maybe a lite coat of rubber cement.
xtraxritical
Nov 2012
#30
Are there any specific resources you would recommend for the uninitiated to begin learning?
Incitatus
Nov 2012
#63
I do that for one of the renters next door. She's a law student at my alma, and
msanthrope
Nov 2012
#48
Thank goodness for my like minded neighbors -they have one SSID up for them, and another SSID marked
HipChick
Nov 2012
#68
I honestly wouldn't expect that from you. I'm very happy to have been wrong.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#79