Top Russian spy ring technology screw-ups

Alleged Russian spies arrested last month in cities around the United States seemed to be lacking in spycraft and in urgent need of some IT expertise

The spies set up ad hoc wireless networks in coffeeshops, book stores and other public locations to communicate with each other without actually talking or even seeing the other party. Federal agents used a wireless sniffer to determine that machines with the same two MAC addresses communicated repeatedly.

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