Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud
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In this case the quality metric for the wifi sniffer is the TTL aka time to lie.
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I would laugh at the stupidity of it all but this shit fuels armies of folks to do bad things ... folks without enough knowledge of tech or sufficient critical thinking skills.
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There's a lot of stupidity to parse here, but did anyone think to tell him that the acronym WMD has some ... shall we say, historical baggage to consider?
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The hallmark tendencies of a snake oil salesman: use somewhat existing terms and wow your uneducated audience that what he's got is "never before seen" to make the audience believe him.
Too bad he's about ten years behind in technology when he wants to go back seventy years in civilization to when old white men ruled over everything.
Too bad he's about ten years behind in technology when he wants to go back seventy years in civilization to when old white men ruled over everything.
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He microdoses pillow down sourced from bullshit mountain.
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PetterOfCats
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the easiest and best solution to remove election fraud, gerrymandering, and most things wrong with America is to do what George Washington once said (paraphrasing): get rid of political parties.
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The problem here is he's not the snake oil salesman. He's the genuine believer who bought off the salesman. So everything he says to an audience has a ring of sincerity to it.
The person who sold him this.... well, they got a sweet deal with a complete sucker....
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IncorrigibleTroll
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You just know that whenever he sees a “Secret Government Surveillance Van” SSID, he starts looking for an unmarked black van.
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I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone here, but a wireless connection isn't proof of connection to the internet.
This drone idea has all kinds of problems aside from that, though:
This drone idea has all kinds of problems aside from that, though:
- Battery life: Most polling locations are open for 8-12 hours. I'm not aware of any drones that can fly that long one a single charge. They're going to need a lot of drones and a lot of batteries.
- Data storage: For it to be useful evidence, proper collection, tracking, and chain-of-custody will be required. I have doubts they can handle that at a small scale.
- Commercial flight restrictions: If they're flying these near airports for commercial purposes (and non-profits count), they're going to need all the pilots to have an FAA drone pilot's license. Even if they don't, I believe they still have to notify the local tower if they're going to fly them within airport airspace, which can extend several miles out from the airport itself.
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Ill change my hotspot SSID to Dominion_Voting_Machine_#1922935_CHINA_Tunnel while voting this year.
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He may be a legitimate believer, and trusts 'experts' who reinforce his world view. The guy is obviously not all there. (This is not in any way to excuse the damage he is causing)
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I seriously don't understand how this guy got rich.
I also seriously don't understand how he hasn't already burned through all his money via all this conspiracy BS. As a courtesy to the entire planet, they seriously need to fast-track the various slander cases against him, so that he can be bankrupted into oblivion.
I also seriously don't understand how he hasn't already burned through all his money via all this conspiracy BS. As a courtesy to the entire planet, they seriously need to fast-track the various slander cases against him, so that he can be bankrupted into oblivion.
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How are they going to tell the difference between the wifi at polling places against all the other wifi traffic? Even most smartphones have an option to be used as wifi hotspot.
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Did I miss something, has ARS opened a clown section?
Media coverage of these people give them attention. They should be ignored, they can't make anyone dumber if every media ignores them.
Media coverage of these people give them attention. They should be ignored, they can't make anyone dumber if every media ignores them.
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I'm legitimately surprised he doesn't have a dowsing rod attached to the drone.
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People like this are provably vastly more likely to engage in actual election fraud. Be very aware of that.
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For years someone on my street had their SSID set to "OPP [Ontario Provincial Police] Surveillance Unit". I'd often wondered if anyone took it seriously. I guess this numbskull would have.
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GURPS Dark Ops had a great bit about that kind of thing:
You don't know if that news copter or medevac or corporate-looking helo is part of the conspiracy. You can't know. And by the time you figure it out, it's because you're already in a prison cell awaiting a grueling interrogation.
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Bankrupted or not, he and Alex Jones will still end up sipping aged scotch together on the stern of a megayacht on their days off thanks to being maliciously useful idiots for moneyed interests.
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Are they intentionally trying to cause a chilling effect for polling places by hovering drones around them?
Will those drones be distributed equally across all polling places, or will they be strategic based on the outcome they're looking for?
Will some domestic terrorist ride the coat-tails of this and weaponize a drone to enhance the chill effect for those polling places? Is the acronym WMD a hint-hint-nudge-nudge?
This needs to get shut down hard.
Will those drones be distributed equally across all polling places, or will they be strategic based on the outcome they're looking for?
Will some domestic terrorist ride the coat-tails of this and weaponize a drone to enhance the chill effect for those polling places? Is the acronym WMD a hint-hint-nudge-nudge?
This needs to get shut down hard.
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They won't, and that's the point. Instead they'll use it as "proof" to spread FUD.
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I have 5,000 drones, strapped with WMD and ready to fly over every polling station. What could go wrong?
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See also: the number of police officers killed by seditious rioters in support of the 'law and order' Constitution-obsessed party, compared to that attributable to their opposition.
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I always wonder whether it's kinda nice to be this dumb. Like you must not have anything real in your life to worry about if you're dreaming up shit like this while also clearly having zero fucking idea how anything more complicated than a pencil sharpener works.
Also, I've always brought my phone with me while voting. Ignoring that he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking and just taking his demonstration at face value where he can see that everyone in the audience has a phone, so?
I thought this asshole was on the run. What happened to that?
Also, I've always brought my phone with me while voting. Ignoring that he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking and just taking his demonstration at face value where he can see that everyone in the audience has a phone, so?
I thought this asshole was on the run. What happened to that?
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Why do I get the feeling that some shady entity with ties to various US adversaries will take the chance to start selling "election sniffers" for these idiots to attach to drones and fly around themselves? Except the sniffer will in reality be a black-hat device that spreads malware to any wifi networks it's able to connect to...
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Just be careful not to miss and inadvertently start a wildfire that takes out a coastal town...
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