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I heard that smoke rooms in hotels are one of the cleanest places you can find because of all the filtering, provided no one is smoking atm.


This is a great tool for all your phishing needs!


That's pretty lame. What IP you wanted to drive where there is no cell connectivity rt all, say Mongolia?


Seems that your battery would fail when you need it the most: namely, in the middle of nowhere with no cell coverage.


Ironically, it seems that this only happens when you are within service.

Another commenter speculated that when you're out of service, the software correctly identifies that there is no tower to connect to and stops trying. But when you're in service, the code repeatedly tries to do the 3G handshake because it can see a valid tower.


It may happen with a lot of devices if 3G appears browned out to them and not just plain unavailable.


Or the park in a garage with no coverage?

One can only hope that "smart" will have very bad associations in the future (for the general public).


If it doesn't already (or 5 years ago...), then I don't have much hope for the future.


There are huge swaths of areas with no service in the US that people regularly visit.


I don't understand what's this about actually. You can't just go around accusing people of being rapists without evidence. And if there's evidence, go to the police. What's so special about the hacker community to especially have "problems" in this area?

Also, he quotes some US studies about 1% of rapist being convicted IN THE US and then argues about some even in Berlin. Justice system isn't the same worldwide and I guess its effectiveness would vary.

Such presupposed accusations are very bad for the community as a whole. And sometimes, even after a court verdict, they are still false, viz the tragically comic trial of card. George Pell (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/26/rise-...).


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