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charcircuit 2 minutes ago [-]
>a fake hotspot (“Delta WiFi Fast”), with a phishing landing page “designed to harvest passengers’ personal credentials.”
It wasn't a fake hotspot. It was a real hotspot with a SSID that potentially infringed Delta's trademark. CFAA doesn't prevent harvesting people's credentials since it's the user's own machine that people are connecting to.
port-tcp 4 hours ago [-]
I hope people realise this is the potential outcome for their skiddy behaviour.
They never do. This happens every year at BH/Defcon, and they always make an example out of the perp yet someone always does some dumb shenanigans.
jetbalsa 3 hours ago [-]
This year we had a really bad RF jammer on 140mhz fucking with the Ham Radio Village/Contest. The story I heard was someone yelled into hardware hacking area that the FCC was coming and the jamming stopped
alephnerd 3 hours ago [-]
Hehe. That's hilarious.
Sadly, the barrier to entry for a lot of script kiddie shit is minimal and apparently common sense ain't common.
scrapedface 3 hours ago [-]
The fox hunt players could have found this dumbass in an instant.
Is this really where our law enforcement should be spending its resources? I would say rescuing kittens from trees is a higher priority than this nonsense.
Also worth noting wherever we get a chance — the Computer Fruad And Abuse Act itself is nonsensical and must be abolished. There is no salvaging it. It must be repealed with no replacement.
I don't think the FBI has enough agents to play tech support to anyone who doesn't understand how wifi works.
skullone 7 minutes ago [-]
People allegedly broadcasting fake SSIDs on a plane to do credential harvesting on a plane shouldn't be prosecuted? Ok...
It wasn't a fake hotspot. It was a real hotspot with a SSID that potentially infringed Delta's trademark. CFAA doesn't prevent harvesting people's credentials since it's the user's own machine that people are connecting to.
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/man-charged...
Sadly, the barrier to entry for a lot of script kiddie shit is minimal and apparently common sense ain't common.
Also worth noting wherever we get a chance — the Computer Fruad And Abuse Act itself is nonsensical and must be abolished. There is no salvaging it. It must be repealed with no replacement.
I don't think the FBI has enough agents to play tech support to anyone who doesn't understand how wifi works.
Still, I agree.