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Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Lindell, the My Pillow CEO who helped finance Donald Trump's baseless election protests, "demonstrated" the technology at an event he hosted in Missouri this week (see video).

Lindell said the gadget, which he calls a "WMD" for "Wireless Monitoring Device," detects nearby Wi-Fi networks and MAC addresses.

A Daily Beast article said Lindell's plan might violate Louisiana state laws on criminal trespassing and the use of unmanned aircraft to conduct surveillance.

It's not clear why a router connecting to the Internet would be evidence of election fraud, but Lindell provided that as an example multiple times.

The WMD will put that to the test by detecting and reporting in real time Wi-Fi connections in county and state election offices.

DePerno is facing criminal charges for an alleged attempt to illegally access and tamper with voting machines.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Lindell said the gadget, which he calls a "WMD"

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The WMD will put that to the test by detecting and reporting in real time Wi-Fi connections in county and state election offices

Is this supposed to see which devices are connecting to the wifi, or the WiFi networks themselves?