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by radicaldreamer 897 days ago
Does the NSA use WiFi at all other than for clandestine collection systems in the field?
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Rebelgecko 897 days ago
Yeah, they put out an article a few years ago talking about how a limited number of SCIFs have WiFi now
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sandworm101 897 days ago
Do they broadcast an SSID? They can't have "NotYourSCIF". That's my home network. Someone else is the building is using "FSB_BugsNet". Another local one i see is "CEyeA".
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Rebelgecko 897 days ago
To be compliant with NSA TEMPEST regulations, the SSID has to be set to FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN_69
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sneak 897 days ago
SCIFs are already shielded for EM, so any Wi-Fi inside of them shouldn’t make it outside of them anyway.
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forward1 897 days ago
It's not official until you change the MAC OID to 00:20:91 as well.
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NoZebra120vClip 897 days ago
WiFi and other wireless protocols seem like an elaborate, yet wildly successful, plot to make consumer comms as insecure as possible.
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