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Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines. (arstechnica.com)

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Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.::Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I trust him to monitor elections as much as I trust my ability to throw trump

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It definitely sounds like they want to use drones and a wireless device like a Wi-Fi Pineapple to try and penetrate elections systems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So, let’s just say the voting machines are connected to the internet. But with ethernet. Or a bluetooth tether. Or a USB - Sim based tether.

This wouldnt detect it at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mein Pillöw-Beiter needs to step away from Trump's cock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If election polls are using HTTP authentication, File Transfer Protocol, and/or Telnet, they're in bigger trouble than I thought. It's not tough to know HTTPS, Secure File Transfer Protocol, and SSH will be a huge prevention measure for WiFi sniffers and just much more secure overall. Plus they really should be using a sniffer themselves to monitor outside attempts like this...