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by duckfang 6y ago
We can thank Michael Ossmann for his DC25 talk about detecting and pulling DSSS signals out of noise. He also posts proof of concept code to do just that, including also detecting the chip sequences and chiprate. https://hackaday
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by duckfang 6y ago
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It" - Upton Sinclair (related reading: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katie_Taladay/publicati
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by duckfang 6y ago
> But I have a hard time visualizing RF light. The best things I can recommend is to play with GnuRadio, IQ data, false color representation of a freq or set of frequencies bound to color/decibel strength, and ParaView and importin
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by duckfang 6y ago
> - They're typically not going to be watching it 24/7. They'll only look at the tapes if something occurs. Didn't we just have an article a few days ago about Google automating everything, and having absolutely meage
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by duckfang 6y ago
There is a potential counter here by everybody not google. Run a browser string check, and redirect people to Firefox. Google is being blatantly anticompetitive, and significantly abusing monopoly status to further monopolies elsewhere. And
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by duckfang 6y ago
From their discord, this is just more gongkai "loot open source/GPL and be closed source"-ware
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by duckfang 6y ago
> > Signal was used by Chinese dissidents and were whisked away by the CCP. The most likely proposed method was that the GBoard (google soft-keyboard) was "updated" with a poison update that uploaded everything typed. What d
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by duckfang 6y ago
There's some major issues with Signal right now. 1. Signal was used by Chinese dissidents and were whisked away by the CCP. The most likely proposed method was that the GBoard (google soft-keyboard) was "updated" with a poiso
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Parler App delisted from Google Play; Apple threatening same within 24h(nytimes.com)
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by duckfang 6y ago
Indeed it is impressive but not wildly so. Most consumer-ish hardware falls prey to all sorts of various TEMPEST attacks. You can even get started with a HackRF and some inductive loop antennas. It would set you back $130 or so on ebay. Fro
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by duckfang 6y ago
So, can I go around writing "Debt forgiveness bills", take that off my taxes, and report them as "debt reconciliation income"? What allows them to make up magic numbers for a price?
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by duckfang 6y ago
Unfortunately, that comment precludes the Free Software and the Open Source software side of things. In those cases, it is free code under a usually strong license of permissions. And tracking for the most part, has been a manner of "D
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by duckfang 6y ago
It is indeed sad that a 9 year old died from purely preventable air pollution. However, through her death and the resulting judgement, we (royal) can start holding polluters and companies liable. And through that, we can start to effect str
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by duckfang 6y ago
its the same that happened in US films. they dont get made if they don't sell well to an international audience. why sell to 350m people when you can sell to 4b people? its also who marvel/disney doesn't feature lgbt characte