21 Responses to “Targeting the wireless”

1. Wi-Fi Networking News, on August 25th, 2003 at 4:40 pm Said:

   Burglars with Wi-Fi Detectors?

   Burglars use radio frequency detectors to find laptops: If you’re already a worrier, add one more item to the list….

2. shawn's blog, on August 25th, 2003 at 4:48 pm Said:

   Targeting the wireless

3. Testing, 1.. 2.. 3..., on August 25th, 2003 at 7:21 pm Said:

   One more thing to worry about

   Here’s an interesting story, people using RF detectors to find houses with wireless networks, and therefore laptops….

4. Bill K, on August 25th, 2003 at 7:52 pm Said:

   Hey David: Speaking of wireless (excuse me for the tangent) the Dean juggernaut is coming to Bryant Park, NYC tomorrow, the first significant hotspot in the city. Is this just coincidental?

   Bill K.

5. Gerry, on August 26th, 2003 at 9:34 am Said:

   Makes me glad that I pulled a handful of twisted pair cables through the walls. I’m not sure how you would combat this sort of thing short of putting up a juicy looking hotspot and staking it out until you caught the bastards. OTOH, I don’t have any computers worth stealing. The fastest machine I have is a P/III 550, and the 80GB drive I recently bought quintupled my total storage space, and the only reason I bought that was I couldn’t get Linux and Windows onto the 4GB drive that came with the system recently donated by a friend.

6. 摩摩不落格, on August 26th, 2003 at 11:06 am Said:

   智慧犯罪

   正當我還在為不請自用他人 wireless access point 而有點良心不安時 ,今天看到一個BLOG的消息如下 隨著電腦科技的進步與普及，宵小偷竊的手法也越來越進步：美國 Joho the Blog 就在這兩天貼出了一…

7. natasha, on August 26th, 2003 at 2:40 pm Said:

   Chalk one up for an uber-paranoid acquaintance whose dream home would feature a Ronson-cage built into the exterior walls.

8. Backup Brain, on August 26th, 2003 at 9:36 pm Said:

   A Working WiFi Finder?

   David Weinberger was told by an “anonymous source” that A friend in Belmont (MA) was among a group of neighbors

9. Tom, on August 27th, 2003 at 7:10 am Said:

   it’s time to change your SSID to “266MhzP2” to ward them off

10. Julian's Blog, on August 27th, 2003 at 7:49 am Said:

    Wireless Thief?!

    應該是同一個新聞來源吧！ 據新聞報導，現在有小偷會用 RF 去掃哪家有 Wireless 設備，甚至是 wireless notebook。如果再加上 Ekahau 這樣的定位引擎軟體，全民公敵裡的場景眼看著要上演… mtlin’s b…

11. Brian, on August 27th, 2003 at 11:20 am Said:

    How does your friend know how or why he was targeted? If the thieves were caught, wouldn’t that have been mentioned in the original note?

12. jedi_diah, on August 27th, 2003 at 5:10 pm Said:

    How do you know that the thieves had RF equipment without actually apprehending them and finding the equipment? It may have been a strange occurance. I agree with natasha, this seems uber-paranoid.

13. Jonathan Ah Kit, on August 28th, 2003 at 5:24 am Said:

    This doesn’t sound particularly far fetched to me. There was the old scam, albeit where I live, of the criminal underworld plus reporters (especially from newspapers) going about with radio scanners to see what the police were up to. Which I imagine is probably outdated for the most part with digital technology and scrambling stuff… but the point is, what’s stopping someone walking around with a modern equivalent? Would help get laptops stolen to order.

14. Geek News Central, on August 29th, 2003 at 2:41 am Said:

    Should you put your Wifi Access Port on a timer

    This information is a few days old but should give you something to think about. Seems some thieves have been…

15. Peter, on November 6th, 2003 at 10:38 pm Said:

    Great comments guys. Peter FDA

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17. Pierce, on January 13th, 2004 at 7:52 am Said:

    Note first that favoriteNumbers type changed. Instead of our familiar int, we’re now using int*. The asterisk here is an operator, which is often called the “star operator”. You will remember that we also use an asterisk as a sign for multiplication. The positioning of the asterisk changes its meaning. This operator effectively means “this is a pointer”. Here it says that favoriteNumber will be not an int but a pointer to an int. And instead of simply going on to say what we’re putting in that int, we have to take an extra step and create the space, which is what does. This function takes an argument that specifies how much space you need and then returns a pointer to that space. We’ve passed it the result of another function, , which we pass int, a type. In reality, is a macro, but for now we don’t have to care: all we need to know is that it tells us the size of whatever we gave it, in this case an int. So when is done, it gives us an address in the heap where we can put an integer. It is important to remember that the data is stored in the heap, while the address of that data is stored in a pointer on the stack.

18. Brett, on February 5th, 2004 at 7:57 pm Said:

    Attention “D. WEINBERGER!”

    my laptop was just stolen from a house in Belmont MA two days ago! A stranger was seen in the driveway with a laptop computer several weeks ago. There was several thousands of dollars worth of other electronics stolen. We *really* need to compare notes! Please contact me!

19. Mr Jupiter, on May 29th, 2004 at 8:45 am Said:

    get a big dog, theyll think twice.

20. Bitish Columbia Search Engine Optimization Webmaster, on March 11th, 2005 at 5:46 pm Said:

    Sad state of affairs for all Americans the day they imposed the Patriot Act ;(

21. Your life is for sale, on January 15th, 2006 at 12:27 pm Said:

    Here are some updates on the Belmont Lawyer in the home that was stolen in Arlington. The zoning lawyer helped get the Mormon church into Belmont. The firm is part of is Murtha Cullina, a Connecticutt based firm. Connecticutt is known for all kinds of corruption. But it gets worse. If you thoroughly research under this law firm name you can connect them to all of the worst scandals in American History as an active player with allegations of political wrongdoing by high ranking official. See S & L Scandal, see Lincoln Savings and Loan Scandal, see Colonial Insurance Scandal that connects to Rhode Island Mob and the Medford and Winter Hill Mob and all the scandal with the Bulger Clan which means this firm is in Bed with dirty politics including working with people that connect to Arlington, Belmont, Woburn and Burlington to name a few locals. We are all paying for this crime and you should be scared because this is coming to our doors more and more with abuse of power, crime and emminent domain tactics across this country.
    Get the word out we have to unite and start taking action!

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