Hidden NEWSTWEEK device distorts news on wireless hotspots.

[no1_vern]

Newstweek is a device to manipulate news read by other people on wireless hotspots.

Hidden NEWSTWEEK device distorts news on wireless hotspots. Be wary of where you get your information from.

[GroundZero3]

Please dont watch the video above, the music is god awful and just has some scary words like "agent" and "hacker" with some no faces individuals meeting. Plus it doesn't explain anything

Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks, brews beer, is time machine - Hack a Day

This is why you use a vpn connection on a hotspot!

[no1_vern]

Um, sorry for the bad video link, I couldnt find a better description of the threat than the vimeo video in the original article(no matter how bad the music). In my search, I didnt see the hack-a-day article, I guess I should have looked further down in the search results.

Though, linking to a how-to is probably a better idea - I wish I had found that first

[bigBonehead]

Man... that's scary stuff! I wonder though... how long has this been going on?

[GroundZero3]

Man in the middle attacks have been around for a long time, this is just a different way of implementing it. I guess the one question I have is if someone learns about some new story while reading at a coffee shop, what happens when he goes home and looks at the news and realizes he/she/they cant find the story anywhere else on the internet.

[bigBonehead]

My Grand Father used to say: "believe none of what you hear, and half of what you see"

I'm beginning to think he was only half right...