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How is the FCC going to know I jammed my neighbors wifi? This is a serious question, you can practically run any red light you want where I live without any rep

How is the FCC going to know I jammed my neighbors wifi? This is a serious question, you can practically run any red light you want where I live without any repercussions. Is there an FCC overlord watching these signals?

ronnier 3y ago
This is taken a lot more serious than running red lights, and yes, they will get you. A guy in Florida was using a jammer in his car to block phones when he was driving. They found it. https://www.pcmag.com/news/fla-man-fined-48k-for-jamming-cell-signals-while-driving https://www.pcmag.com/news/fla-man-fined-48k-for-jamming-cel...
- sidewndr46 3y ago
  That guy was not jamming WiFi Also he ran the jammer every day along a very specific route. It's like robbing the same liquor store 3 nights in a row. Eventually even the laziest cop just waits around back for you to show up.
rolph 3y ago
https://www.fcc.gov/over-air-spectrum-observation-capabilities https://www.fcc.gov/over-air-spectrum-observation-capabiliti... https://www.mdarc.org/regulations/fcc-monitoring-stations https://www.mdarc.org/regulations/fcc-monitoring-stations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKCMfVJohI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKCMfVJohI
- AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
  Those are all either offline or too far from anyone to be able to detect, let alone triangulate, a wifi jammer.
AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
Two ways First way, they get reports from people/companies/band users and will maybe act on them. This assumes it's in a band they care about, people report stuff in the ham bands all the time but they nearly universally ignore those. Second way, you interfere with something safety critical, such as an airport, where they may have installed equipment to monitor RF in particular bands. TL;DR: unless your neighbor is an RF professional and can determine that they are being interfered with instead of "huh, the wifis no workie...shrug", they just won't do anything.

ronnier 3y ago

This is taken a lot more serious than running red lights, and yes, they will get you. A guy in Florida was using a jammer in his car to block phones when he was driving. They found it. https://www.pcmag.com/news/fla-man-fined-48k-for-jamming-cell-signals-while-driving https://www.pcmag.com/news/fla-man-fined-48k-for-jamming-cel...

sidewndr46 3y ago
That guy was not jamming WiFi Also he ran the jammer every day along a very specific route. It's like robbing the same liquor store 3 nights in a row. Eventually even the laziest cop just waits around back for you to show up.

rolph 3y ago

https://www.fcc.gov/over-air-spectrum-observation-capabilities https://www.fcc.gov/over-air-spectrum-observation-capabiliti... https://www.mdarc.org/regulations/fcc-monitoring-stations https://www.mdarc.org/regulations/fcc-monitoring-stations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKCMfVJohI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKCMfVJohI

AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
Those are all either offline or too far from anyone to be able to detect, let alone triangulate, a wifi jammer.

AnarchismIsCool 3y ago

Two ways First way, they get reports from people/companies/band users and will maybe act on them. This assumes it's in a band they care about, people report stuff in the ham bands all the time but they nearly universally ignore those. Second way, you interfere with something safety critical, such as an airport, where they may have installed equipment to monitor RF in particular bands. TL;DR: unless your neighbor is an RF professional and can determine that they are being interfered with instead of "huh, the wifis no workie...shrug", they just won't do anything.