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Posted on 06/23/2017 6:54:58 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas
An odd thing began happening to my wife a few weeks ago. She was trying to hook up to our home wi-fi system and there was an available network called "FBI camera". I blew it off and told her it was probably one she accidentally saved while at a starbucks or something and someone was just using a "creative name" for their hotspot. The reason I believed that is that our home is several hundred yards from the nearest neighbor, and most of them don't have computers.
Here is the weird part: I'm working from home today and when I tried to log on to my hotspot with my work computer, "FBI camera" was on the list of available networks with two bars of signal. It comes and goes.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but how could there be anything like that being picked up out here in the middle of nowhere? We are surrounded by about six acres of field and that is surrounded by about 100 foot thick forest all around.
Anybody have an idea?
I remember those.
The FBI wouldn’t name the FBI camera wifi “FBI camera”.
Check our Sharyl Attkisson and what they did with her laptop.
I once stayed in a hotel with free wifi service, and when I turned on my computer to activate the connection I noticed that one of the network connection choices was named "FBI Surveillance Van #5." LOL.
Charge up your laptop, download and install a program called “Xirrus WiFi Inspector” and then hit the road. You will be able to find the source of that wifi signal by viewing Xirrus. It has a radar-like display and will show relative strength of incoming wifi signals. Start taking pics when you get to the source and see what you can see.
You can name your WiFi network anything. One of your neighbors is a comedian.
Hey I remember Rob Roy.
Before the 2016 election I changed by Wifi Guest account to “Hillary for Prison 2016” for the edification of liberal neighbors when they were going online.
Well based on the FBI findings on the Alexandria shooter, they may be just stupid enough to name their Wifi FBI.
Could it be the SSID on a “MyFI” from a cell phone?
A friend drove me up an old logging road in the Ozark Mountains and showed me a camera mounted on a tree in the wilderness. He thinks it belongs to the Game and Fish Commission. Guess they want to make sure you don’t kill more squirrels than your daily limit. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I can’t argue that logic.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/travel/wifi-detectors1.htm
World record, as of 2007, was 304 kilometers with special equipment.
Its a brand name for a surveillance camera. Check eBay and see hundreds for sale.
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I saw a secured wifi connection ‘FBI surveillance van’ twice in the last six years. Each time the signal lasted several days, usually in the early morning hours.
It was rare to see it any later in the day, but it happened one day so I showed it to a friend as a witness. People would make wisecracks about tinfoil hats... most people did not believe it because, “Why would the FBI announce their presence like that?”
Maybe that was the purpose. I’m pretty sure local felons of every description knew of it, and so it was possibly a bluff intended to scare some of those creatures out of town?
I don’t know the strength of the signal, but I did look around the neighborhood and did not see any suspicious vans.
Ham radio antennas and white/yellow add on lights make it look official.
When providing surveillance equipment, the vendors habitually name the device for what it is
The end users are often remiss in changing the user name.
Seen it happen. My own orgs secret squirrel mobile unit..
One day sitting in a parking lot, I got an “available wi fi “ alert on the face of my phone, identifying the unit.
Yep. I had to let them know. It had been that way for a few years!
WIRESHARK ....free software, collects details in your area as to wifi etcetera.
Also disable WPS on your wireless router from its configuration IP at 192.168.1.1. Choose WPA2/TKIP and pick a long, complicated and unguessable password. (You can also use white list to keep anyone else from connecting to your WiFi.) Also, change your router’s name into a different brand (if it’s TP-Link for example, change it to D-Link or another brand) to lose script kiddies from guessing information on your router....
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