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The other day a coworker was telling me about a device their kid (well, grown up now) saw in a snow bank outside of a busy retirement home.
Now they are not all that tech savvy, but the description "a box with blinking lights on it and a wire up to something on a telephone pole" immediately made me think router and antenna of some kind. They called the police because they thought it was a bomb
awe but it was taken away by someone before the police arrived (apparently someone dug it out in a hurry and ran off :awe::awe. As a funny aside, the cop asked them to show them the UFO box, I guess the description given on the phone was less than useful.
Has anyone seen this sort of thing set up in public?
I have no way of knowing if it was a wifi repeater, something with sniffer software on it targeting the public wifi in the retirement home, a cellular hotspot trying to get folk from the home to connect, or some really strange traffic counter run by some independent researcher and not the city. I can't think of what else it wold be, the only legitimate thing that comes to mind is a traffic counter, but being dead winter in Ottawa that is weird.
I've heard of , and witnessed, people setting up 'free wifi' in a hotel with the intent of getting people to connect and steal info. But this is the first time I've heard of something that may have been the same idea but in broad daylight buried in the snow.
Now they are not all that tech savvy, but the description "a box with blinking lights on it and a wire up to something on a telephone pole" immediately made me think router and antenna of some kind. They called the police because they thought it was a bomb
awe but it was taken away by someone before the police arrived (apparently someone dug it out in a hurry and ran off :awe::awe. As a funny aside, the cop asked them to show them the UFO box, I guess the description given on the phone was less than useful.Has anyone seen this sort of thing set up in public?
I have no way of knowing if it was a wifi repeater, something with sniffer software on it targeting the public wifi in the retirement home, a cellular hotspot trying to get folk from the home to connect, or some really strange traffic counter run by some independent researcher and not the city. I can't think of what else it wold be, the only legitimate thing that comes to mind is a traffic counter, but being dead winter in Ottawa that is weird.
I've heard of , and witnessed, people setting up 'free wifi' in a hotel with the intent of getting people to connect and steal info. But this is the first time I've heard of something that may have been the same idea but in broad daylight buried in the snow.
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