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Funny because a while ago I had some problems with a somewhat noisy neighbor listening to dubious music at odd hours -- not enough to even record his music on m
by raducu 5y ago
Funny because a while ago I had some problems with a somewhat noisy neighbor listening to dubious music at odd hours -- not enough to even record his music on my phone, but I live in an old apartment building and it was enough to keep me up at night; in fact once I made peace with it I could sleep through his noise.
So I remembered back in the day I could hear beeps in my speakers when my cell phone rang and I wondered it I could do the same to his speakers. After a lot of search I found out that a lot of speaker amplifiers were vulnerable to CB frequency injection and being close enough you could actually highjack some vulnerable speakers/amplifiers given you were close enough/transmitting at the right frequency and power.
In the end I just angrily knocked at my neighbor's door at 2AM and complained about the noise, he apologized, turned down the volume and I've never had problems ever since.
I got to know the guy eventually when some other neighbor flooded our toilets by pouring concrete down the toilet drain, he was just a nice uber driver in his 40s having problems with his wife, drinking into the night and listening to dubious gypsy blues that resonated to his sorrows.
- thewakalix 5y agoYou mean you were able to solve a problem with a few minutes of talking rather than an elaborate technological process? I’m shocked, truly.
- raducu 5y agoI was really shocked myself. I guess I got to my senses when I started studying for radio license and made a very expensive list of radio equipment that I couldn't otherwise use because I live in an apartment building (antennas and all that) and even if it worked I would get into problems with the police for emitting above legal power limits.
- kolinko 5y agoIt's amazing what engineers are willing to try before actually talking to someone ;) In my apt. building the home control system is absurdally easy to hack - literally anyone can hijack their neighbour's light&ac control system via WiFi. A friend of mine just shuts down lights of their neighbor when they make too much noise after midnight. I was close to doing the same when our neighbors were too loud, but decided on just going there and talking to them :)