Where's that wireless router hacking thread again...?

August 10, 2006 9:48 AM

OK, I'm a MeTa noob, but an avid MeFi reader and have contributed a handful of threads. I am looking for a thread within the last two weeks that may have been deleted/moved/whatever, and I cant find it. I have been looking for over an hour now. Does anyone know where that thread about altering the settings in your wireless router to make people attempting to steal a connection see all their pictures upside down? It was a neat read, and I actually wanted to look at it again for a semi related work project. Thanks, and again I'm sorry if this isn't where its supposed to be.
posted by Addiction to Etiquette/Policy at 9:48 AM (20 comments total)

dunno about it being here, but i have the howto bookmarked here.
posted by casconed at 9:50 AM on August 10, 2006

Thanks man you are a lifesaver. Why was the post conatining that link deleted?
posted by Addiction at 10:13 AM on August 10, 2006

gonna have to find it to figure out why (if it was) deleted. They always give a reason for killing the MeFi post, see for example.
Lofi has all the posts from the blue, even ones that get d-listed. Unless someone can pinpoint it exactly continue to do your own sleuthing.
posted by edgeways at 10:29 AM on August 10, 2006

I don't think it was ever on MetaFilter. It was definitely on Lifehacker though.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:42 AM on August 10, 2006

That was on BoingBoing on 08/03/06, so that should narrow your searching. Or maybe you just saw it on BoingBoing?
posted by scottreynen at 10:42 AM on August 10, 2006

Looking at the deleted thread blog, I cannot find any reference to that site. You sure it was on here?
posted by daninnj at 10:43 AM on August 10, 2006

psst! Did you look behind the WMDs?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:53 AM on August 10, 2006

I saw that somewhere else. It was a riot. You should post it to the front page addiction.
posted by caddis at 11:15 AM on August 10, 2006

Yeah, I think I saw it on /., not Meta.
posted by Dipsomaniac at 11:20 AM on August 10, 2006

You should post it to the front page addiction.

Agreed. If there was another thread about this, you'll know within five minutes.
posted by Ryvar at 11:26 AM on August 10, 2006

I saw it on metachat, I don't think it was ever here though.
posted by bob sarabia at 11:30 AM on August 10, 2006

There. Posted.
posted by klangklangston at 2:09 PM on August 10, 2006

Betcha you saw it on Digg. Or Fark. This is how you know you spend too much time on the web.
posted by sourwookie at 2:46 PM on August 10, 2006

It's right here.
posted by blue_beetle at 3:22 PM on August 10, 2006

I saw it on metachat, I don't think it was ever here though

Yes -- you saw it on MetaChat on July 28th.
posted by ericb at 3:53 PM on August 10, 2006

Looking at the deleted thread blog…
Thanks daninnj, didn't know that existed.
posted by tellurian at 4:54 PM on August 10, 2006

This one wasn't actually deleted, though. It's missing the obvious "wifi" tag.
posted by delmoi at 12:37 AM on August 11, 2006

Cool, I had honestly thought I saw it here.

I get confused heh, and spend way too much time on the intarweb =/ Working as a sysadmin has its pluses and minuses. Thanks for the mention on the mefi thread too caddis :-)
posted by Addiction at 6:07 AM on August 11, 2006

"It's missing the obvious "wifi" tag."

[moves with quickness] No it's not.
posted by klangklangston at 7:36 AM on August 11, 2006

Is there a blog that tracks deleted Ask.Me questions?
posted by crazyray at 11:52 PM on August 14, 2006