Doing so gives you free room and board at Guantanamo Bay. If you ever wanted to visit Cuba ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil...
Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
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#52I was captivated by the introduction but I only made it halfway through before I gave up. The random bolding and emphasizing of almost every other word really put me off. Also, even though I can see that it's clearly had a ton of human effort put into it, I got a lot of AI vibes from the writing.
The article was published in June 2023, which makes LLM use less likely for that kind of article.
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#53This is a really cool hack, and I wish I could pay for things with a dumb watch. It's just the right level of useful and silly to be up my alley. But the article, as others have mentioned, is a little off. The author did not "invent" the guess-and-check method for verifying resonance. That's been a staple of radio since the beginning, which is why original tuner dials were actually variable capacitors > Therefore, an…
Is there a short but decent RF/antenna crash course? I’m fascinated by the topic — though the prospect of going through a textbook and revisiting the physics rabbit hole gives me massive anxiety (it always ends up recursing to philosophy).
Re: Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
#54I don’t know why Casio doesn’t just do something like this themselves, I’d buy it. Don’t need a super smart watch but do like contactless payment with a wrist.
Apparently, Casio fails to recognize that nowadays, most people don't really need a watch for timekeeping because they carry a smartphone that does time perfectly well. I wear a cheap $5 Chinese made watch only because I use it to carry a backup of all my crucial data with me at all times, even in the shower. If something goes bump in the night, my data is always with me so all I need to worry about is my own persona…
Is your data encrypted at rest? Someone could kill you and steal it very easily.
Re: Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently, Casio fails to recognize that nowadays, most people don't really need a watch for timekeeping because they carry a smartphone that does time perfectly well. I wear a cheap $5 Chinese made watch only because I use it to carry a backup of all my crucial data with me at all times, even in the shower. If something goes bump in the night, my data is always with me so all I need to worry about is my own persona…
Is your data encrypted at rest? Someone could kill you and steal it very easily.
If the threat model includes murder, they can get my encrypted data anyway.
See XKCD #538: https://xkcd.com/538/
Re: Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
#56Quick correction to the opening paragraph: You actually can use tap-to-pay without unlocking your phone (for iOS at least) when paying for a public transit fare. Theres a setting called transit mode or express or something. Once enabled, you just hold your phone up and it works without authenticating
Re: Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently, Casio fails to recognize that nowadays, most people don't really need a watch for timekeeping because they carry a smartphone that does time perfectly well. I wear a cheap $5 Chinese made watch only because I use it to carry a backup of all my crucial data with me at all times, even in the shower. If something goes bump in the night, my data is always with me so all I need to worry about is my own persona…
Is your data encrypted at rest? Someone could kill you and steal it very easily.
The watch itself is certainly nothing anyone would kill me for .
But yes, the entire microSD card is encrypted using BitLocker in case it happens to be lost or otherwise falls into the wrong hands. My will contains the decrypt password.
If you think about it, my data is as safe as I am --- if not safer. The authorities aren't going to spend any effort to recover a memory card --- but they will to recover a body with a memory card attached..
Since this is always with me, it serves as the off-site copy in my 3-2-1 backup plan.
Re: Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
#58Doing so gives you free room and board at Guantanamo Bay. If you ever wanted to visit Cuba ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil...
Curious, I've had one of those watches for years and never got caught.
OR perhaps your meme is out of date.