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A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by veeti »

ck2 wrote: post #29

Whew, she is in Finland. In the USA, Carmen Ortiz would be sending in cops to shoot their dog and seize their computer.

You're talking about the same Finland where the police force:

- writes its own search warrants

- raids gardening stores because their equipment "could be used" to grow illegal drugs

- tries to charge people with wiretapping for recording them during a home visit

- conducts body & home searches in the middle of the streets based on inaccurate drug dog detections

- falsely blocks informative sites about our internet blocklist for years without any accountability or response

- and raids 8-year olds for downloading a couple of songs

It's just as shit here as it is there.

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by windytan »

eXeP wrote: post #30
rdl wrote: post #22

It was funny/sad that people commenting on her blog assumed she was male due to the topic.

Well it's funny/sad if the commenters are not finnish, because 1919 windy@pentti~/koodi/redsea ) ./redsea.pl | grep TMC Pentti is a finnish males' name not a womans' name, I was really confused when I found out in comments she is she not he.

Pentti is my computer.

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by rdl »

eXeP wrote: post #30
rdl wrote: post #22

It was funny/sad that people commenting on her blog assumed she was male due to the topic.

Well it's funny/sad if the commenters are not finnish, because 1919 windy@pentti~/koodi/redsea ) ./redsea.pl | grep TMC Pentti is a finnish males' name not a womans' name, I was really confused when I found out in comments she is she not he.

Making reasonable assumptions about that customized prompt:

Her host is named Pentti. Her username is windy. Her files are in ~/koodi/redsea (koodi = code).

(I usually have "ryan" as a username on unix hosts, so rather than putting my username in the prompt on every line, I just put a % if it's that, or a # for root, or ! for something nonstandard (like a role account, or one of the systems where I don't have my normal username.))

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by _b8r0 »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #2

Man, her blog is full of awesomeness. All kinds of cool little projects on there.

I've been trying to get her to submit to 44CON[1] for over a month. I get the impression she might not feel like she can fill 45 minutes from the comments but I'd still want to try and get her over. Her blog is absolutely amazing though, one of the best I've seen in a long time.

[1] - http://44con.com

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

jrockway wrote: post #7
sillysaurus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

decoded from intermodulation distortion in the radio's Line Out audio I wonder if this is a fairly common side channel attack? The most common in the domain of digital crypto is time (e.g. all password inputs must take equal time to check vs a given password, otherwise you leak info about the password) but distortion seems an obvious attack vector against analog crypto. Though I don't know if it's merely obvious in h…

This isn't an attack, it's just using the cheap FM radio and a sound card like a software-defined radio.

I believe the parent comment is referring specifically to the part about sniffing one stream of information using only the observed it has on another stream (as opposed to the part where the radio is connected to a sound card and digitized).

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by ck2 »

veeti wrote: post #31
ck2 wrote: post #29

Whew, she is in Finland. In the USA, Carmen Ortiz would be sending in cops to shoot their dog and seize their computer.

You're talking about the same Finland where the police force: - writes its own search warrants - raids gardening stores because their equipment "could be used" to grow illegal drugs - tries to charge people with wiretapping for recording them during a home visit - conducts body & home searches in the middle of the streets based on inaccurate drug dog detections - falsely blocks informative sites about our internet bl…

Wow. Has it always been that way or did it change in recent history?

I guess I am thinking of Norway with the 20-year maximum murder sentence.

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by MertsA »

veeti wrote: post #31
ck2 wrote: post #29

Whew, she is in Finland. In the USA, Carmen Ortiz would be sending in cops to shoot their dog and seize their computer.

You're talking about the same Finland where the police force: - writes its own search warrants - raids gardening stores because their equipment "could be used" to grow illegal drugs - tries to charge people with wiretapping for recording them during a home visit - conducts body & home searches in the middle of the streets based on inaccurate drug dog detections - falsely blocks informative sites about our internet bl…

Towards the bottom I had to look back at the top to make sure you said Finland and not America.

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by Fargren »

rdl wrote: post #28
ars wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or people did not know, and were indifferent to, her gender and used the male pronoun because that is the correct grammatical structure when the gender is unknown. I certainly never pay the slightest bit of attention to the gender of people I read. Does it make any difference?

On someone's personal blog, if you're going to comment, and the person's name and photo is right there, it's about the same as addressing a female in person as "Sir" (or in this case, "dude")

"Dude" works for women. How else are you going to call a female person in her late twenties? "Woman" is way too formal for many settings, "girl" can imply that you think she's not mature, and "gal" is just... no.

If anyone has a better alternative, do tell. I'm not too pleased with "dude" either.

Re: A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

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Post by rdl »

Fargren wrote: post #39
rdl wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On someone's personal blog, if you're going to comment, and the person's name and photo is right there, it's about the same as addressing a female in person as "Sir" (or in this case, "dude")

"Dude" works for women. How else are you going to call a female person in her late twenties? "Woman" is way too formal for many settings, "girl" can imply that you think she's not mature, and "gal" is just... no. If anyone has a better alternative, do tell. I'm not too pleased with "dude" either.

Either be more specific (you, hacker, engineer, etc) or less specific (person, or leave off the pronoun?)? I mean, I don't think any of this is that important, and saying things like "the elevator has a 10 man capacity" is fine, but there is no reason not to try to be accurate when it costs little.
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