Registered to ask more about broadcasting but I wanted to bring up this topic while I had it on my mind.
Recently my friend sent me recordings of what he claimed were the "Russian Woodpecker" from back in the day. Naturally, I got excited because I love all the old theories about it being a mind control device and used to listen to SW/Commercial AM late night call-in shows full of speculation about what it might be. Over the decades it seems most people have settled on the fact that it was mostly used as long range RADAR. Some interesting facts (like NATO funding the damn thing) have come out over the years too. But I digress since none of that is why I posted this thread.
After I spent many hours listening to and picking through these supposedly found "lost media" recordings of the Woodpecker my friend revealed the truth. These weren't recordings of the Woodpecker circa mid-late 1980s. They were recordings of his ISP supplied router/modem combo which of course has two built-in wifi APs. At first I didn't believe him but then I checked out my own (I have multiple APs myself) and I'll be damned. It's the exact same pattern of the old Wood Pecker.
The fact is you could pass off these as recordings of the Woodpecker on places like youtube and I doubt 99% of the viewers were ever question it. Including so called experts.
Now it makes me wonder why that is so. The old theories of mind control come back to the forefront of my imagination. But also the many papers I've read over the years about these ISP supplied wifi APs being used to track the location of people within their own homes. After all most people these days don't even have access to their own routers since they rent them from the ISP and many no longer come with proper control panels. Most won't even let you access them over the LAN anymore. At least not the ones being rolled out over the last couple of years. They all require a cell phone app now that only gives you very limited access. I've also seen people that refuse to pay for the "wifi" calling their ISP to have it turned off remotely by a customer support agent. The router will no longer broadcast the AP's name and you can not connect to it for internet. But it's still on at all times and other customers of the same ISP can use it to access the internet (so-called "remote wifi" with our regional ISP).
I just thought it was interesting. If anyone knows why modern wifi sounds exactly like the old Wood pecker I'm all ears. I don't see any real reason why it had to be engineered that way.
Topic: Modern Woodpecker (Read 103 times)
