What a ridiculous idea. Proving that wifi exists in a polling station means nothing, and gathering the info from people’s phones is definitely a privacy violation in a vote setting. This psycho and his devices should not be allowed anywhere near where people vote in any state.
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The best news from that article is how it recounts that his business is crumbling.
Did you watch the excerpts from his insane deposition? The best parts are when he laments the downfall of his stupid pillow company.
Well I know what I'm watching tonight now
Haha, well... just so you know, it's 40 minutes of Lindell freaking out and insulting the questioning lawyer mixed with whining. It was horrible but also the kind of spectacle from which it is difficult to look away. The court reporter refused to return for the second day.
Links?
This is 19 minutes. There’s a 40 min one out there too.
Well that sure was a deposition.
Guy is full on nutter.
It's not really about voter fraud, it's about sowing seeds of doubt about elections. Hopefully it just discourages his fan from showing up to vote in the first place.
That's possible
This is the stupidest idea. Do people not realize how many people walk around with hotspot enabled on their phones? It’s so easy to forget it’s still on.
And how many People don't even know a WiFi Hotspot is a thing.
Does your phone not turn off hotspot automatically when nothing is connected for a period of time?
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This crackhead won't give up. How does he have any money to develop anything with all his legal expenses?
I mean, he didn't develop anything. It's just a network scanner.
Well the maga base seem very willing to donate "for the cause" but I'm just guessing
The entire MAGA ideology is based around the adage about fools and their money.
So, he reinvented wardriving as part of his election conspiracy? $500 is expensive when you can just use WiGLE on your phone and accomplish the same thing. Many people were already doing this for a hobby or to help cybersecurity analysts anyway.
Guaranteed they are scraping wifi data to sell to Russians so they can fuck up every election office's wifi on election day.
That's an interesting point. I wonder where these devices are actually made
If you have an Android phone, Wifiman or WifiAnalyzer (both free apps without ads) can tell you all the specs you could ever need about nearby Wifi access points. I can tell you this, they are usually really boring.
This is another attempt by a right wing conspiracy theorists to scam 500 dollars out from his supporters.
How can conservatives manage being both the joke, and the punchline while thinking anyone is going to take them seriously ever again?
That entire political party is forever ruined. And it’s god damned hilarious how they did it.
How can conservatives manage being both the joke, and the punchline
Denial is more than just a river
some hand gesture
Does it matter if they start a civil war? Being on the outside looking in, it seems to be a possible reality.
At this point? As far as I’m concerned… no. It doesn’t matter. Fuck this place. They’re hell-bent on destroying their own country, who am I to stop them? We’ve learned that votes don’t matter- so I say fuck it- let them have their way and let reality show them what reason and logic couldn’t.
Amen.
If anyone wants a real and fully functional version of this, check out the pwnagotchi. You can build it yourself or you can buy a prebuilt one. Good for on-the-go network analysis.
If I set my phone to serve as a hotspot while I vote, what are the best wifi names I could use to get a laugh or scare people?
I'm thinking something like:
- vote count adjuster
- ballot changer
- vote improvement machine
I'm not terribly creative, let's see what you all can come up with.
Antifa Agent?
Ballot manipulation terminal #17
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