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History's first public hack: rats, rats, rats (rigb.org)
nadis 12 hours ago [-]
Being accused of "scientific hooliganism" by a worthy adversary sounds like a new personal goal.
charliebwrites 13 hours ago [-]
I wish they would’ve actually discussed _how_ the hack was accomplished
kbenson 10 hours ago [-]
I 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.

gwbas1c 12 hours ago [-]
Uhm, broadcast on the same frequency? It's not that hard to figure out what frequency Marconi was broadcasting on.
IAmBroom 8 hours ago [-]
Those 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.

optimalsolver 11 hours ago [-]
Title sounds like some kind of LLM prompt injection.
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