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History's first public hack: rats, rats, rats
- charliebwrites 1y agoI wish they would’ve actually discussed _how_ the hack was accomplished
- gwbas1c 1y agoUhm, broadcast on the same frequency? It's not that hard to figure out what frequency Marconi was broadcasting on.
- IAmBroom 1y agoThose were the early days of radio, as in "Let there be light" kind of early. Very few people could even build a receiver, much less tune it.
- TRiG_Ireland 1y agoNah. He just did a broad spectrum broadcast which any receiver in the area would pick up. Today, it'd probably be illegal. Tom Scott made a video about it, and mentioned that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2qqMegNKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2qqMegNKA
- kbenson 1y agoI think what's left unsaid and implied is that the original system wasn't secure in any way, the "tuning" was just choosing a frequency. It's only a "hack" because of the claims that were made. In a way, that would be like advertising a secure horseback large sign delivery service, where the "security" is that the sender and receiver choose one of a few routes between locations, even though the large sign is easily seen and entirely uncovered, making the courier easily identified and the sign when in transit easily read from a distance. The "hack" for that type of system is ultimately so trivial as to be mostly uninteresting.
- estimator7292 1y agoIt's just a simple AM broadcast. It was only novel at the time because radio was new.
- nadis 1y agoBeing accused of "scientific hooliganism" by a worthy adversary sounds like a new personal goal.
- optimalsolver 1y agoTitle sounds like some kind of LLM prompt injection.