Well, *I* had never thought of this. Never leave home WiFi on default / factory credentials.

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1149384426003976192.html?refreshed=yes

Do you think Fedex, or UPS, or USPS, have considered the possibility that someone could easily ship a wifi-sniffing device to themselves and have the device turned/sniffing the airwaves during the whole trip?

Take the USPS example-
The wifi sniffer would be sitting in the postal worker's vehicle at every stop on their route (every house) after pickup. Then the package would physically enter a federal processing facility and be handled by machinery and additional people.

All the while potentially grabbing passwords, wifi handshake hashes, media addresses, and more. Such a thing could even do some active probing of the wifi or bluetooth enabled machines in areas it passes through. Theoretically even audio could be recorded.

Then the finale is the actual return of the package to the person that shipped it to themselves. Stored data is then downloaded off device and parsed out for tasty bits.

Have shipping companies/services considered this? Are there mitigations in place?

[customerserviceguy]

1. You'd need a sufficient amount

of battery power to do that. I'm not familiar with sniffing devices, so maybe it is feasible.

[jberryhill]

3. It's feasible, but I don't see the point

[jberryhill]

2. What would be the advantage of that versus simply driving around with it yourself?

My post office is a couple of miles away. There's nothing that stops me from wardriving (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving) around my local area.

How does having the USPS deliver a package give me more information than I could simply get myself?

[NeoGreen]

5. I think the idea is that you are having UPS do the Wardriving...

...for you.

You place your sniffing device in a package that is to be shipped to you and collect data from all the truck's stops along the way.

[stonecutter357]

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[Brother Buzz]

6. Gracie Allen shortened all the electric cords in her house to save electricity.

[jberryhill]

7. She always had very clever solutions

[Brother Buzz]

9. She was also a political sage

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for - Gracie Allen

And when she ran for president she decided there would be no vice presidential candidate because she promised there would be no vice in her administration; Gracie ran a clean campaign, with simple and achievable goals

[jberryhill]

10. I would have voted for her

As a kid, I thought she was really ditzy, because I didn't understand that she was so witty and talented that she could make that portrayal seem so effortless.

[Roland99]

8. lmao