- 3 days
Anyone feel like mapping out all the companies, how they’re related, and boycotting them all in a Pressure Campaign?
- 3 days
You know about NEMA nodes, meet electricity: it turns special rocks into logic machines that can be used as a surveillance network.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish3 days
Yeah so many legitimate uses for power outlets at the very top of street lamps.
Are people really this naive? Or is it sort of a self delusion?
- trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtfEnglish4 days
I knew this shit was going to happen. And then eventually damn near invisible. Black mirror ain’t got shit on reality.
- ID10T@programming.devEnglish4 days
Some people view dystopian sci-fi as entertainment. Some people view it as a warning. What you can’t forget, though, is that some people view it aspirationally.
- Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
I couldn’t watch it. I’ve seen two episodes and they disturbed me to my core with how plausible they were. Like Idiocracy, I could only watch that once and I think of it as a horror film rather than a comedy. Because of how plausible it was.
- turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish4 days
It’s time for electronic weaponry to hit mass production. EMP gun tech can be refined and perfected outside of official labs these days.
- cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish4 days
I wonder how well these spy devices would hold up if someone connected a horn antenna to an industrial magnetron and blasted them with 10-20 kW of RF?
- 4 days
I mean, you can build one yourself, but a real damaging version would require a lot of power.
Unfortunately due to the inverse square law, they don’t have a very long range.
I guess a phased array emp would be the best way to do it.
Not easily done with the DIY hacky way of doing it with a coil and teaser generator, but I’m sure with some decent mosfets and transformers, it should be possible.
- T156@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Unfortunately due to the inverse square law, they don’t have a very long range.
Possibly for the better. Last thing you need is people accidentally hitting a plane with one of them.
People already do it with lasers. Something that destroys the electronics would be even worse.
- greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish4 days
would it not be enabled by putting it on the end of a long stick?
- greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish4 days
I can imagine a stick and just walking post to post touching each one while wearing a hi-viz with PG&E printed on it.
- partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
If you can rig it to the top of a vehicle, you can get them faster maybe.
- I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
At that point, just have spray paint on a stick. Or better, just a long paint roller.
- greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish3 days
Not all surveilance is optical. It might just be listening for your BLE chirps or other 2.4ghz traffic from your devices
- 4 days
How? I’ve been trying my best to find a DIY EMP, and AFAICT, none of the ones that are easy to find blueprints or instructions to build actually create an EMP. They just short out spectacularly.
- N4kt0@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
Because you need a fuckton of energy to produce an EMP capable of damaging anything. Unless you have access to military grade warheads or a low yield nuclear device, you can forget about it.
- Septimaeus@infosec.pubEnglish4 days
At distance yes. Close up it’s easy. Aluminum foil in your microwave easy.
- Septimaeus@infosec.pubEnglish4 days
I posted one above, however given the height of many of these installations, I think the common piezo+coil demo mounted on either a telescopic floodlight bulb changing pole or a payload drone modified to shield the controller board (otherwise plan to replace the boards) would be simpler safer and cheaper.
Edit: actually since it’s a drone you can just suspend the coil by a string and rely on inverse square for shielding. Much lighter. Cheaper drone or stronger pulse.
