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# Unbelievable! Illegal??
- URL: https://yovko.net/unbelievable-illegal/
- Published: 2005-07-27T10:31:44.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-27T10:31:44.000Z
- Author: Йовко Ламбрев
- Tags: Технологии

> Last month in Elk Grove, a high-school student faced eight felony computer-theft charges for allegedly hacking into his school’s computer system and changing his grades. When police searched his home, they found aluminum-lined, cylindrical potato-chip containers that some hackers use as crude antennas to help them intercept wireless signals.
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> Known as „cantennas,“ they consist of a Pringles can and some hardware worth $5 to $10 but can be used to amplify a wireless signal several miles away.
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> „They’re unsophisticated but reliable, and it’s illegal to possess them,“ said Lozito of the Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force.

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