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   Catalin Cimpanu (campuscodi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 04:10:15 JST Catalin Cimpanu

   Dutch police detain two 17yo for walking with WiFi sniffer past Europol, Eurojust, and Canadian embassy.

   The two were allegedly recruited by Russia through Telegram

   https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/26/two-dutch-teens-arrested-rare-russian-espionage-case

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     Randagodron (randagodron@piaille.fr)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 18:27:02 JST Randagodron

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage @campuscodi I guess that the "sniffers" did not "just listen to packets" but sent pings or equivalent probing signals to find networks. Thus easy to identify. On a lower-level, as far as I know even "only listening to radio signals" can be detected with accurate enough equipment, since radio receivers have a local oscillator for demodulation, and the oscillation "bleeds" through the receiving antenna and emits a small though detectable signal.

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     M Schommer (musevg@23.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 18:50:32 JST M Schommer

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage @campuscodi
     My guess: Two kids looking suspicious on surveillance cams, fumbling around with a laptop and an Alfa wifi adapter with long antennas.
     No admin magic here.