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It might be part and parcel with the American Dream. Believing that society is a meritocracy -- that your success or failure is primarily a function of the effo

It might be part and parcel with the American Dream. Believing that society is a meritocracy -- that your success or failure is primarily a function of the effort you put in (plus whatever sui generis "merit" you personally have) is another version of a just world. And if you have a just world, well, surely if you've commanded the attention of the police or ire of the military, you've done something to deserve it, right?

tr1ck5t3r 10y ago
You forget the espionage aspect or extortion aspects. All technology is dual use. You can make your own fake cell towers for under £100 with a raspberrypi and a USB Software Defined Radio (SDR) adaptor that's got a range of 40metres. However its not just fake cell towers you can make, you can listen into calls made with wireless handsets that plug into landlines, obviously crack wifi, but you can also intercept and mess around with peoples air conditioning, lighting systems and central heating if these use radio frequency. The infrared remote controls need line of sight to interfere with devices, so someone appearing at your lounge window to switch TV channels is a bit obvious. Some instructions you may be interested in. This link even played Stevie Wonder's "I just called" to hacked mobiles, but you can download everyones messages, and other files from their smart phones now a days or infect their smart phone, again dual use! https://julianoliver.com/output/stealth-cell-tower https://julianoliver.com/output/stealth-cell-tower http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/cracking-gsm-with-rtl-sdr-for-thirty-dollars/ http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/cracking-gsm-with-rtl-sdr-for... Even back in 2008 its been going on, well actually I was first alerted to it in the 90's, when mobiles were just coming into existence, that person who alerted me is now the highest risk Cat A prison in the UK. http://hackaday.com/2008/02/15/shmoocon-2008-intercepting-gsm-traffic/ http://hackaday.com/2008/02/15/shmoocon-2008-intercepting-gs...

tr1ck5t3r 10y ago

You forget the espionage aspect or extortion aspects. All technology is dual use. You can make your own fake cell towers for under £100 with a raspberrypi and a USB Software Defined Radio (SDR) adaptor that's got a range of 40metres. However its not just fake cell towers you can make, you can listen into calls made with wireless handsets that plug into landlines, obviously crack wifi, but you can also intercept and mess around with peoples air conditioning, lighting systems and central heating if these use radio frequency. The infrared remote controls need line of sight to interfere with devices, so someone appearing at your lounge window to switch TV channels is a bit obvious. Some instructions you may be interested in. This link even played Stevie Wonder's "I just called" to hacked mobiles, but you can download everyones messages, and other files from their smart phones now a days or infect their smart phone, again dual use! https://julianoliver.com/output/stealth-cell-tower https://julianoliver.com/output/stealth-cell-tower http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/cracking-gsm-with-rtl-sdr-for-thirty-dollars/ http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/cracking-gsm-with-rtl-sdr-for... Even back in 2008 its been going on, well actually I was first alerted to it in the 90's, when mobiles were just coming into existence, that person who alerted me is now the highest risk Cat A prison in the UK. http://hackaday.com/2008/02/15/shmoocon-2008-intercepting-gsm-traffic/ http://hackaday.com/2008/02/15/shmoocon-2008-intercepting-gs...