DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

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port-tcp•about 2 hours ago

I hope people realise this is the potential outcome for their skiddy behaviour.

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/man-charged...

_--__--__•about 2 hours ago

alternatively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htCJTPu8GPE

jimt1234•about 2 hours ago

Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

alephnerd•about 2 hours ago

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•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour 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.

mcny•about 1 hour ago

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 It must be repealed with no replacement.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.

mindslight•13 minutes ago

Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?

Still, I agree.

ChrisArchitect•about 1 hour ago

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265134

DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

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