Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.::Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.

  • BreakDecks
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    312 years ago

    This isn’t some sort of technical misunderstanding. This is pure horseshit and Lindell knows it too. Republicans know how stupid their base is, and that they don’t have the capacity to question brazen nonsense like this.

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    532 years ago

    Oh Manic Mike… Tell me your don’t understand technology without explicitly telling me you don’t understand technology.

  • @imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee
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    142 years ago

    Can we please all assemble as close as possible to these things and use unencrypted connections to download very very gay porn?

  • WtfEvenIsExistence3️
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    132 years ago

    Better yet, have a militia patrol them and detain anyone attempting voter fraud. Give them a uniform as well, a uniform of brown shirts… wait a minute…

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    262 years ago

    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.


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    • @betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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      102 years ago

      If I’ve learned anything about system intended to be secure, it’s that you want as many hastily-assembled wireless-enabled devices loitering around them and definitely won’t just be an excuse to try and bust in through whichever vulnerabilities the Russian GRU and Chinese MSS have discovered or engineered. Not saying this significantly increases the attack surface over what may already be exposed but no need to add these devices into the mix.

      The original article contains 666 words…

      Satanic plot detected.

    • Otter
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      72 years ago

      Lindell said the gadget, which he calls a “WMD”

      🤨

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

      Is this supposed to see which devices are connecting to the wifi, or the WiFi networks themselves?

      • @Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
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        172 years ago

        It seems to say that it would report any wifi devices MAC address, which would include the devices connecting to the network and the routers providing the network.

        But you’ll have no idea what they are. They could be anything from a router, to a smart light bulb, to a thermostat, to a security camera, to a cell phone, etc.

        I’m sure plenty of polling places will “light up the alarm” - what polling place doesn’t have some wifi network for SOMETHING? And some people will have cellphones trying to connect to that network etc.

        I don’t know specifics about voting machines, but from a security perspective, their network connections should 100% all be hard wired. Wireless just adds more security holes. They should be hard wired and wifi sniffers will never touch that.

        So either you get no alarm and it could still be hardwired to the internet, or the alarm goes off and you don’t know if it’s the voting machine or Billy Joe’s iPhone trying to connect to the voting centers open wifi network.

        The whole thing is entirely pointless.

        • Rootiest
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          It’s just dumb people playing on the fears of other dumb people.

          Imagine you had no idea what an IP/MAC address or SSID was.

          Then imagine Fox News start reporting that Mr Pillow’s WMDs have found countless instances of voter fraud, show a big list of MAC addresses.

          You’ll easily have a large number of people convinced they’ve seen indisputable proof of voter fraud all over the country

  • @nutsack@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    sounds like the police dog thing. you get the dog to bark for any reason and you’re allowed screw people over

  • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    52 years ago

    Well, what if I told you there was a device that’s been made for the first time in history that can tell you that that machine was online?

    I’d say you were a time traveler from the 70s?

  • @LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    92 years ago

    Wifi sniffers = Russian malware Trojan horses to hack voting machines / tallying computers.

    That way republicans will have the irrefutable proof that those machines were hacked (while conveniently leaving out that republicans hacked it).

    • Kitty Jynx
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      32 years ago

      He’s not even consistently good at that. I got one as a gift and it was really uncomfortable.

    • BlueÆther
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      52 years ago

      I have had a dig around some of Mike’s ‘projects’, Frank* etc. They all look to have one thing in common ( rather 2, but first thing first), they seem to be there to drive money into Mr pillow’s pockets and promote his agenda - does he have plans to run for office?

      Secondly - I feel like my brain decreased in size and got smoother while reading some of the shit posted as ‘News’ on FrankSpeech