How a hacker diagnoses a power outage

[niteshad]

Step 1: lights blink out, UPSes start to scream.

Step 2: Fire up Kismet, note that none of the APs in the neighborhood, except mine (currently on UPS) are functioning.

Step 3: Call power company to report outage.

Comments

[praecorloth]

Kismet ftw!

[niteshad]

Definitely. It's a handy little program.

[mynameisnotreal]

Heh... Everyone else just looked out the window.

[niteshad]

Your method assumes that it is evening or night and your neighbors are home, both of these assumptions were invalid at the time the outage occurred.

[ginaspider]

So I'm still trying to place you at notacon/blockparty. Did we meet?

[niteshad]

I don't think so, though I did spend a fair bit of time in the Blockparty lounge. I was the tall guy in the olive BDU pants, mesh black "tactical vest" with the red/black shemagh tied loosely around my neck in Bedouin fashion. Usually, I was typing frantically and testily on my keyboard, trying to solve enduring hardware problems.

[ginaspider]

Hmm.. well. Next year I'll surely say hi

[niteshad]

I think we kept passing one another in the Blockparty lounge. You have short brown hair and wire-rim glasses and were working on some sort of hardware hack involving a Mac USB keyboard plugged into some sort of single board computer, yes?

After you finished, I wound up occupying your space with my ailing Athlon tower.