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So if a tourist carries RTL-SDR device to listen to local music on FM radio, he/she/other is going to rot in jail or worse? Tunisia being a tourist hot spot I
by Abishek_Muthian 8y ago
So if a tourist carries RTL-SDR device to listen to local music on FM radio, he/she/other is going to rot in jail or worse?
Tunisia being a tourist hot spot I expected their customs to be knowledgeable enough to differentiate a malicious device.
I think they had already made their mind to arrest this person and RTL device is just a scape goat (or) they were super paranoid for some reason & this person was just unlucky to have a USB device with a antennae which for the uninformed has spy gadget written all over it.
- oasisbob 8y agoGiven that an RTL-SDR is a device capable of receiving and intercepting all sorts of radio signals, I would be very careful of traveling with one unless I was intimately familiar with the relevant laws of the country I was traveling to.
- jwandborg 8y agoThe thing about an RTL-SDR is that it's just a TV/FM tuner, sold for that purpose, but with alternative drivers on the host you can use it for general RF tuning. My RTL-SDR is a cheap Chinese TV tuner dongle. They need access to his PC in order to prove that it's being used for other things than watching TV.
- antsar 8y agoThey [would] need access to his PC [if they needed] to prove that it's being used for other things than watching TV. Fixed that for you :)