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I do wonder whether this is the right move. Sure law breaking must be punished, but seems like precisely the skillset & mindset you'd want on your side if you w

• wongarsu 2y ago
  Depends on the sentence he gets. They did just write about his name and skillset in a national newspaper. If he only serves a year or two that can end up as a positive for his career.
• andylynch 2y ago
  I’m sure the folks from Cheltenham can find them if they want a chat. But given these guys appear to have been running this as part of a bigger spam/fraud game rather than for curiosity/ general mischief they might be too far in the poacher category for the gamekeepers.
• ptero 2y ago
  To me, this is the right move. The skillset needed to build such RF endpoints is not that rare. Any decent EE college graduate should be able to rig one up with an off the shelf software-defined radio and some literature review. If all they did were to build it for laughs and boasts I would hope they would just be yelled at and threatened with a sizeable fine next time they try such spectrum violations. But they apparently phished a lot of information with the intent to defraud folks, which in my book completely changes the proper response. My 2c.