Someone tell me how to join team “satellite hooligan”.
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vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days agoThere must be some additional steps. Otherwise those satellites would be overloaded with hooligans.
FE80@lemmy.world 1 day ago
knightly@pawb.social 1 day ago
You can get a cheap SDR for a few bucks and an antenna for about the same. The rest is software and ingenuity.
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 15 hours ago
Is it illegal to do this? I mean they aren’t being used anymore so no harm no foul right?
knightly@pawb.social 12 hours ago
The legality is questionable, but just listening is harmless.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well the biggest steps I’m going to assume are having a satellite dish, knowing where to point it, knowing what to send, then hope that someone is listening. Much easier for a hooligan to throw a rock at someone or find a can of spray paint
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nope, lol. These suckers are fucking ancient. There isn’t any processing, you can’t overload something that isn’t actually reading the data or using a protocol.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
They still use energy, no? To relay signals on another frequency. That should come from somewhere, and also the more different signals, the more noise. And without their input frequency being regulated, there must be lots of noise.
Arkthos@pawb.social 2 days ago
You can do this same attack on any antenna, noise can’t be protocolled away. Repeating both signal and noise is a downside to bent-pipe setups.
Input frequencies are regulated via band-pass filters.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I’m not talking about technical things, just that IRL on regulated frequencies one can do something because people using it for bullshit are legally prosecuted. Depends on wavelength, of course.
But OK, now I think I get what you are talking about.