A NSA survelience van within WIFI range of my place!!!

[charles052]

I ran into that lots of times on the road. It's either been FBI surveillance or NSA, etc... I think it's just some who people don't want their wifi tampered with or tapped into, so they rename their home network to deter would be leechers.

Of course, I could be wrong...

[67GTA]

I caught my neighbor's teenage son trying to hack my wifi last year. Just for laughs, I changed my ssid to "FBI Surveillance Van".

[dibl]

Funny! And ... inspiring! I have this paranoiac ex-cop neighbor -- but I doubt he has the smarts to scan his wifi signals.

Hey, how about "Invisible CIA drone"?

[GreyGeek]

My wifi connection was unusually slow so I used nm-tool. Look what I found!

$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected (global)


** (process:26386): WARNING **: error: cannot retrieve connection: uid 1000 has no permission to perform this operation
- Device: eth0  [Wired connection 1] -------------------------------------------
  Type:              Wired
  Driver:            atl1c
  State:             connected
  Default:           yes
  HW Address:        4C:72:B9:2D:8D:99

  Capabilities:
    Carrier Detect:  yes
    Speed:           100 Mb/s

  Wired Properties
    Carrier:         on

  IPv4 Settings:
    Address:         192.168.1.102
    Prefix:          24 (255.255.255.0)
    Gateway:         192.168.1.1

    DNS:             192.168.1.1


- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type:              802.11 WiFi
  Driver:            ath9k
  State:             disconnected
  Default:           no
  HW Address:        44:6D:57:D6:48:88

  Capabilities:

  Wireless Properties
    WEP Encryption:  yes
    WPA Encryption:  yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Access Points 
    b_rewaka:        Infra, F8:8E:85:7C:E9:AA, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 92 WPA WPA2
    NETGEAR27:       Infra, 84:1B:5E:38:48:AB, Freq 2442 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 55 WPA2
    newyork:         Infra, C0:3F:0E:B4:7F:B6, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 50 WPA WPA2
    WIN_08DE:        Infra, 4C:17:EB:0A:08:DD, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 30 WPA WPA2
    Internets:       Infra, 7C:03:4C:21:E1:B0, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 77 WEP
    greygeek:        Infra, 20:AA:4B:3A:85:E3, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 100 WPA2
    UnderTheSky:     Infra, 00:1C:10:0C:83:56, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 35 WPA
    HunnicuttOutside:Infra, F8:7B:8C:09:C1:24, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 65 WPA WPA2
    WIN_ddc4:        Infra, C0:AC:54:47:DD:C3, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 52 WPA WPA2
    WIN_82ce:        Infra, 3C:81:D8:30:82:CD, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 52 WPA WPA2
    Thanh:           Infra, 00:24:B2:B8:79:98, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 40
    Dirtbags:        Infra, 6C:2E:85:70:18:0E, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 32 WPA
    WIN_b985:        Infra, 7C:03:D8:33:B9:84, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 57 WPA WPA2
    ScotFergus-guest:Infra, C8:D7:19:F1:B2:6A, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 62
    ScotFergus:      Infra, C8:D7:19:F1:B2:68, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 54 WPA WPA2
    WIN_582:         Infra, 00:26:50:D6:CE:A9, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 34 WEP
    ITHINKNERD:      Infra, 52:72:C0:40:44:E7, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 27 WPA WPA2
    ANHNET_EXT:      Infra, C6:3D:C7:86:33:43, Freq 2447 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 59 WEP
    WIN_F909:        Infra, 6C:2E:85:6F:F9:08, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 35 WPA
    WIN_1f17:        Infra, 68:15:90:D8:1F:16, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 59 WPA2
    BKWIRELESS:      Infra, 20:4E:7F:C0:9C:1B, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 37 WPA2
    WIN_8f86:        Infra, 2C:39:96:F0:8F:85, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 62 WPA2
[COLOR=#ff0000]    NSA surveillance van: Infra, 04:A1:51:E6:D8:3E, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 55 WPA2[/COLOR]

Big Brother is closer than you think!
(Actually, I think it is someone spoofing NSA with a bogus wifi name, but it's funny anyway )