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Hacking and Security => Hacking and Security => : akaibc February 11, 2014, 09:33:01 PM
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For about 3 hours my Straight Talk cell phone and Comcast internet was down. At the exact same time, they come back online.
I talked to a few of my neighbors and they confirmed that their internet, cell phones and even one persons landline phone wasn't working.
Does anyone know how this happened?
Straight Talk and Comcast stated there were no outages in my area. So, I'm thinking someone was using a jamming device of some sort.
Another thing to take into consideration, my backup cell phone - which is NOT a smart phone - was working flawlessly.
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How are we supposed to know? But probably some misconfiguration somewhere...
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A jammer would block the signal for all cellphones be it smart or dumb phone.
A jammer does not block landline phones...
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Musta been the NSA...
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NSA watchin' you son. Prepare your anus...
Not too sure to be honest. Does this prevent wifi devices from reaching the gateway also? When it is next down, ping your gateway(in my experience usually either 192.168.(0/1).(1/254) from a wifi-enabled device and report back here what is going on...
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Musta been the NSA...
nah it was those damn russians upset they arnt getting any medals.
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A jammer would block the signal for all cellphones be it smart or dumb phone.
Not necessarily, his backup could have different encoding than his main phone. If I remember correctly, CMDA 2000 doesn't operate on the same bands as GSM and UMTS.