It's just that the equipment it takes to reliably do so, from
any reasonable distance in situations where you do NOT have access to a
direct connection, is well out of the realm of tools that the
'consumer' can easily get (or know how to use).

Oh, you are soooooo wrong. I'll leave it at that. :-)

And it can be easily defeated by implementing basic security
measures on the wireless network. Try again?

That MANY people don't do BTW. It is VERY possible and I'll leave it at that.
Don't think it can't be done because I KNOW it can and pretty easy at that.

What Scanner was used in Ghost Dog? I think the scanner in the movie had
both sides of a phone conversation going on(yeah right).

In article ,
"Jon M. Hanson" wrote:

(Jim) wrote in
om:

In the movie Mission Impossible they use a scanner I think it is
either BC245 or BC220 next to a laptop and it is searching
frequencies. what are they doing there?? It's almost like they are
faking it and using the scanner as a counter? I was only half watching
it and didn't see what they were hoping to do but the frequencies were
running up from 30mhz to upper 40s and they mentioned that it was
picking up the hard drive operating frequencies too. What do computers
normally run at in mhz?

What was going on in that scene was that the disk with the NOC list
(the secret agent spy list) supposedly had a transmitter in it so that when
it was used it could be tracked. They had the scanner sitting by the disk
drive in hopes of picking up the bug transmitter.
I never understood the comment the woman made about "it's nothing, it
could just be the hard drive warming up" because the scanner never stopped
on a frequency to indicate a carrier if I remember correctly.

Come on, folks! It's a movie! There is _no_ connection with reality!
If they had bugged a hard drive, they would use a receiver tuned to the
bug's frequency, no? But it's a better visual to have numbers blinking
away on a scanner - something really cool and technological must be
happening!

Dave