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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3413885

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  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    So, let’s just say the voting machines are connected to the internet. But with ethernet. Or a bluetooth tether. Or a USB - Sim based tether.

    This wouldnt detect it at all?

  • §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ@lemmy.ml
    41·
    11 months ago

    If election polls are using HTTP authentication, File Transfer Protocol, and/or Telnet, they’re in bigger trouble than I thought. It’s not tough to know HTTPS, Secure File Transfer Protocol, and SSH will be a huge prevention measure for WiFi sniffers and just much more secure overall. Plus they really should be using a sniffer themselves to monitor outside attempts like this…