Ground Base Commander Shairez's carefully built remote was deposited on the roof of a coffeehouse in downtown Tehran... The 802.11 standard wireless connection of the coffeeshop which had been chosen offered broad frequency wireless connections to the internet with potential victims. Even better, it was completely unprotected, without even the standard WAP's 64-hexadecimal key... For two days, that was all it did-listen, record, and compress, then retransmit daily dumps of all communications in and out of the coffee shop to the stealthed Shongair ship which had deployed it. From “Out of the Dark” by David Webber. Published by Tor in 2010.

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