• realbaconator@lemmy.world
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    Oh wow a DJI with a packet sniffer attached to it, something I can literally put together myself with stuff at my desk in 15 minutes. Absolute baboons, these are the type of people to try and convince you 5G gives you Covid.

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      To be fair, most of us don’t have a packet sniffer and a drone on our desks… Can I have your job?

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      Now sell that to a right wing moron who somehow made millions on shitty pillows for $20k a pop.

      Good money in dumbshit right wingers these days.

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      I dunno, obtaining scrap memory foam for cheap/nothing, shredding it, stuffing it in pillow cases, and reselling them isn’t a BAD idea financially… not sure if they’re any GOOD, but reselling garbage for money can’t be a bad idea.

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        I honestly didn’t know what his product was. I bought similar products on Amazon for dirt cheap and they’re pretty comfy but they get way too hot for my liking. If someone could invent a pillow that stays cool all the time, that would be great.

        Right now I’m using bamboo pillow cases and that’s the closest I’ve come. I’m a very hot sleeper.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Lindell, the My Pillow CEO who helped finance Donald Trump’s baseless election protests, “demonstrated” the technology at an event he hosted in Missouri this week (see video).

    Lindell said the gadget, which he calls a “WMD” for “Wireless Monitoring Device,” detects nearby Wi-Fi networks and MAC addresses.

    A Daily Beast article said Lindell’s plan might violate Louisiana state laws on criminal trespassing and the use of unmanned aircraft to conduct surveillance.

    It’s not clear why a router connecting to the Internet would be evidence of election fraud, but Lindell provided that as an example multiple times.

    The WMD will put that to the test by detecting and reporting in real time Wi-Fi connections in county and state election offices.

    DePerno is facing criminal charges for an alleged attempt to illegally access and tamper with voting machines.


    The original article contains 666 words, the summary contains 136 words. Saved 80%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    This is the stupidest shit I’ve seen all day, and I’ve seen some pretty stupid shit today.

    Maybe I should start broadcasting a new SSID from one of my wireless access points named “super secret Dominion voting machine wireless internet router” to help out.

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    He wants to fly drones near polling places see if whoever he is working with behind the scenes on it can hack them.

    Remember Clint Curtis the Florida whistleblower in the 00s that came out publicly about being hired to hack voting machines?

    Pepperidge Farms remembers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzBI33kOiKc

    https://www.wired.com/2004/12/more-questions-for-florida/

    https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Clinton_“Clint”_Curtis

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    Detection of a WiFi signal does not mean you are detecting a specific machine’s signal. Mike’s drones will pick up the signals of every Wi-Fi hotspot in range. I seriously doubt these places are so isolated that the only signals around would be certain to belong to voting machines. Votes are often held in schools, libraries, city centers, etc. surrounded by hundreds of Wi-Fi signals. Didn’t the Fulton County tabulation happen in State Farm Arena? Their website says that building has a capacity of over 15,000 people. It also says the building is equipped with Xfinity WiFi spots.

    Even if you could confirm that an actual voting machine was connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot, that does not mean it has outbound or inbound Internet access. Even if you could tell that a voting machine was connected to a Wi-Fi signal with a route to the Internet, you would still have to have software on the machine that manipulated the data. If the concern is that some outsider is getting in, there would have to be open ports on the machines.

    I wouldn’t complain if our voting machines’ software underwent static code analysis (it probably does, but I don’t really know that) or if its source code was open. If these machines connect to a network, maybe some packet analysis is in order. But you’re never going to snoop this traffic from a drone. This is the stupidest wardriving.

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      I watched a clip of this event, and he seemed to be coked out of his mind. I’m pretty sure this is his last play to save his finances and not go bankrupt after he tanked his stupid pillow business by marketing it as a conspiracy pillow.

      It’s hard to feel bad for a man like that but he is not exactly a picture of good health

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      In before he try’s to say there are thousands of missing votes because his drones saw more MAC addresses then votes counted. The logic will be “old people don’t carry phones so there should be EVEN MORE votes then devices!”

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    Every new venture he comes up with brings me one step closer to an aneurysm…

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    You can’t detect if a machine is on wifi when that machine does not have wifi.

    Even if it did have wifi, what if I told you there are these things called local area networks, not connected to the internet?