Also- the secret about torrents is that nobody really gives a shit. They're more worried about pedos and terrorists.
Hard disagree, unless you have some citations to back this up.
That’s not true in some places like Germany. Just a few seconds of uploading a somewhat popular movie or porn without a VPN will get you a C&D + fees letter.
I don't understand... how can this be illegal?
A 10dbi gain yagi boosts your transmitted and received signal equally.
> A 10dbi gain yagi boosts your transmitted and received signal equally
I don't see how this can be true, as long as you're not arguing semantics and actually want to use the wifi. Wouldn't you need two identical routers outfitted with high gain directional antennas pointing at each other? That's easy to do when you control both of them, but the subject under discussion is connecting to public wifi of a router you do not control.
Surely a big antenna pointing directly at a router with a tiny antenna will send signals with more clarity than it receives them. The tiny antenna is broadcasting a weak signal in all directions, and the big antenna is transmitting a strong signal in one direction.
I believe that the big antenna could "pick up" some parts of the radio waves from the router, but wouldn't most environments be too noisy for your receiver to find any useful signal? By the time the already weak radio wave gets to your antenna, it's dissipated so much that you couldn't possibly read enough of it to put a meaningful signal back together, right?
Yep. I said I don't understand people who do illegal things over their own connection, i.e., stupidly.
And who owned the public AP?
McDonald's.
you can proudly use it to download torrents (because nobody cares and the feds won't triangulate a signal for torrents), but they can definitely do it for terrorism and intelligence matters. (check out all the stories of spies who had radios, from the 1914 to SOE to cold war)
As a bonus, you even post your story on HN, a site where analysts from all the governments and major companies of the planet meet to talk about tech...
this guy was probably more careful than you
I don't even drive a car when I'm selling shit on craigslist for fear they'll look up the plate and do dumb shit when they're mad the drill I sold them has normal battery life.