Collaborate Disseminate
[Trwmato] wanted to spend more time listening to a normal radio to cut back on phone use. But the programming wasn’t quite right so, of course, the solution was to …read more Continue reading Custom FM Radio Station Powered by Shell Scripts
We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine purposes. But, of course, the mere fact that they are unusual makes them stand out. …read more Continue reading Spy Tech: The GPS Numbers Station
While it might seem that your computer malfunctions every few minutes, the reality is that modern computers are usually quite robust. Not so much for quantum computers, where qubit life …read more Continue reading Microsoft Claims 20 second Qubits
Some security hacks require someone to have physical access to your computer. In many cases, that’s easy to mitigate. Other attack vectors can put you at risk from anywhere via …read more Continue reading If You Want to Hack Me, Come in Through the Speaker
Previously, I looked at using the Linux video loopback system from the command line. The basic trick was simple enough: capture video from a real camera, process it with something …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Fake Webcams, GUI Edition
While many operating systems seem to try to prevent you from peeking under the hood, Unix and Linux positively encourage it. One great tool that we’ve looked at before is …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Taming Strace
You would think a guitar amplifier would be a straightforward piece of analog electronics. But, of course, these days, everything has firmware, including [mforney]’s Yamaha THR10c. The service manual showed …read more Continue reading Poking Around with JTAG on a Guitar Amp
Someone calls you at work and says, “Don’t tell anyone, but…” If you are like most people, there are one or two people you will pass it along to with …read more Continue reading How to Let Everyone Keep a Secret
While designing anything for operation in space has its challenges, there is at least one thing that is more of a problem for objects in Earth orbit than for deep-space …read more Continue reading Attack of the Atomic Oxygen
Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily from the command line. What if you could …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Fake Webcams Have Many Uses