Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

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Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire
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Most likely 2.5g WiFi deauth. 5g fixes it and the companies just put 2.5g chips that are affected by this. Not that hard to use 5g chips.

Edit: Jamming Jamming is different. At that point use Ethernet

5ghz doesn't fix deliberate jamming. There's just more channels available for a device to use. Find the channel the AP is on and start blasting away at that frequency and you're golden. Bonus since 5ghz has a shorter range than 2.4 so with a sufficient antenna and power (because fuck legality if you're already stealing shit).

Ten years ago i had a pocket jammer that whacked every consumer radio frequency within 50 feet.

Not hard to do when you dont care about regs and laws.

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