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 4 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 4 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.
iwontberude 4 hours ago [-]
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charcircuit 51 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.
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 It must be repealed with no replacement.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 57 minutes ago [-]
People allegedly broadcasting fake SSIDs on a plane to do credential harvesting on a plane shouldn't be prosecuted? Ok...
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.
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.
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 It must be repealed with no replacement.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.