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TLDR: Nerds and hammers discover that connecting radio receivers to the internet is not always a good idea. Turns out every one of these popular $350 software-defined radios can be fully controlled and modified remotely with the right admin credentials. They are NOT happy that the creators coded a backdoor into their favorite radio. On top of that, these radios are capable of decoding GPS signals, so their locations are now compromised too.
The creator of KiwiSDR, after letting it slip that he had a backdoor, immediately went into damage control mode and erased any mention of it from his posts. He is now pretending on GitHub that he didn't know about this and is releasing a patch to cover it up.
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Literally the only radio anyone needs is the one that's installed in their uncle's 1984 Cutlass Supreme
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I know I'm a massive cute twink for saying this but software-defined radios are actually kinda fun. You can do all sorts of quasi-legal shit like decode pager transmissions from hospitals (very easy to do btw) and track military aircraft. Only the very least interesting people use these for listening to radio stations or ham radio (which is unfortunately a considerable chunk of SDRcels)
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Neat
Mister 3 letter agent u glow so bright!
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I know I sound like a glowie but it's still legal. I can't identify them but can track their velocity using a passive radar setup. I know saying anything anti-fed on this site makes you a glowie (lame af you kitties), but it's mostly legal and completely untraceable. I've posted about this all over the plainweb and never had any issue.
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yeah SDRs are so cool
you can play with one here
scroll down a bit to find the controls, then zoom in on the waterfall plot with the mouse wheel, drag the yellow arrow thing around to tune it
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Yeah I mean it def sounds neat but I deal with radios + RF shit for work, so it's not real appealing. I've built a few crazy HF antennas in shithole countries if you catch my drift.
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I get that. I'm a chemist and for me SDR was a learning tool for RF stuff in general. Sort of a gateway drug, I guess. I now incorporate methods such as electrical impedance spectroscopy into my research, and I wouldn't have understood or cared about that stuff I not gotten into RF shit via SDR.
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Darn didn't realize so many dramatards are also radio strags, but I guess it makes sense now that I think about it. I'm an RF engineer myself
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There must be a correlation between being a radiostrag and being on this site. That can't be good
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I regret that I didn't minor in electrical engineering lol
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Oddly enough I was seriously considering pursuing chemistry out of high school. Always loved it
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Hobbies are fricking gay
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Jailbreak em
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Even suggesting that makes boomers seethe. They think if you can mod your radios then people might be tarded with them and daddy government could take them away
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Doesn't github have a publicly accessible archive?
IoTiots, do you really care about China, US, Russia, Israel, and every cybercrime organization tapping into your device?
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I should've said "cover his butt". He's patching it and acting like "oh how terrible that I didn't notice this gaping and completely intentional security hole, I'll fix it right away because I had absolutely nothing to do with it"
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what does this even mean
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SDR users are either younger nerds or retired engineers (similar to the demographics of the ham radio community). The software-defined radios (sneedboxes) fuel their daily need for sneed.
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no clapemoji habla clapemoji jibber clapemoji jabber clapemoji
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I thought a lot of these Linux SDRs are around $40 (not including a PC or laptop). Can't they just switch to using some other free software or does KiwiSDR need a subscription?
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Not really, because KiwiSDR runs a Linux kernel and I don't believe you can flash it. They could use a different software to interpret the data that it sends over USB, but that wouldn't change the fact that the onboard Linux kernel still accepts connections from the creator, because that part lives on the board.
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Darn that sucks. I was thinking about getting into SDR stuff but now I know what I won't be using
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KiwiSDR is the only SDR that gives you full access to kiwifarms-over-hamradio-over-avian-carriers
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Iβm deleting this app I genuinely canβt stand yβall. Iβm not even gonna try to make a point this time Iβm done.
Snapshots:
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