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NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives

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Post by whatshisface »

Etheryte wrote: post #67
whatshisface wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Readily turned into a signal jammer? Do you know this or are you just guessing? Raspis are SBCs not tricorders from star trek. In terms of actual knowledge, wifi chips, like the one on your laptop or a raspi do not have software settings for that. They are predominately defined by hardware and by opaque binary blobs the kernel developers have their hands full reverse engineering compatible interfaces for. In addition…

Literally the first result on Google gives a simple to use jammer that works out of the box. Hook up an external antenna and you're good to go. Plenty of more sophisticated options if you dig a bit more.

Are any of the options you found banned?

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Post by throwway120385 »

arcfour wrote: post #25
ghayes wrote: post #7

I am always worried when I bring development boards on airplanes. I assume most people are reasonable, but I worry for a few that might not be.

I brought a 5G Peplink modem (which has 4 external antennas) in my checked luggage and got "randomly searched" by TSA on both legs of a trip once, which I thought was pretty hilarious.

I used to travel with a case full of parts for work and just started leaving extra zipties inside because the TSA agents that would search it wouldn't always ziptie it back closed after they were done.

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Post by baobun »

Etheryte wrote: post #67
whatshisface wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Readily turned into a signal jammer? Do you know this or are you just guessing? Raspis are SBCs not tricorders from star trek. In terms of actual knowledge, wifi chips, like the one on your laptop or a raspi do not have software settings for that. They are predominately defined by hardware and by opaque binary blobs the kernel developers have their hands full reverse engineering compatible interfaces for. In addition…

Literally the first result on Google gives a simple to use jammer that works out of the box. Hook up an external antenna and you're good to go. Plenty of more sophisticated options if you dig a bit more.

Same for Android phones and laptops.

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Post by krainboltgreene »

mc32 wrote: post #64
some_random wrote: post #21

>New York City usually gets this right. It has decades of muscle memory for doing hard things in public, under pressure, without panicking. Not something I would say about Stop-And-Frisk city but whatever.

With A.I./ML and high def aerial and street video + other electronic signals you don’t need ineffective tools like stop and frisk. They had the technology in Iraq to figure out where IEDs were coming from. (TF Odin) They could also cut down on government fraud and all the homeless NGO waste/fraud. [1] We need people to vote in governments who are interested in rooting out fraud as well as other crimes, rather than th…

> With A.I./ML and high def aerial and street video + other electronic signals you don’t need stop and frisk.

Imagine believing that this stuff is effective.

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Post by BigTTYGothGF »

krainboltgreene wrote: post #76
mc32 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With A.I./ML and high def aerial and street video + other electronic signals you don’t need ineffective tools like stop and frisk. They had the technology in Iraq to figure out where IEDs were coming from. (TF Odin) They could also cut down on government fraud and all the homeless NGO waste/fraud. [1] We need people to vote in governments who are interested in rooting out fraud as well as other crimes, rather than th…

> With A.I./ML and high def aerial and street video + other electronic signals you don’t need stop and frisk. Imagine believing that this stuff is effective.

Imagine believing that stop-and-frisk was.

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Post by tomstockmail »

offmycloud wrote: post #70
neilv wrote: post #20

What's also hacker-unfriendly is giving all your hacker-friendly article's traffic to Cloudflare, and then letting Cloudflare block Tor exit nodes from reading your article.

I'm using Firefox on a Linux workstation (without Tor) and I still got the CAPTCHA. The statement "blog.adafruit.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding" is misleading at best. Shame on Cloudflare, this kind of dishonesty makes me not want to trust your RCA marketing pieces.

Same with Firefox Focus on Android.
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