[Cialug] Mini-SETI

[Todd Pierce]

Crew,

If you remember me, I had that client in New Mexico and people seemed to be
always trying to kill her.  Well, she's still alive.  Of course, her
apartment still routinely gets broken into and her car is frequently being
sabotaged, but hey, she keeps chuggin.

I'm in Tulsa now and she calls me and says she's freaked out about the
latest surveillance on her.  Apparently, even though she keeps her
bluetooth off on her phone, when she's driving down the road it
occasionally comes up as being paired with something.  The phone is only a
week old.

Anyway, she was asking me if there was a way she could monitor the radio
frequencies in her vicinity and possibly make sense of them.

Naturally, she's a bit paranoid, but since she already has a laptop running
linux, perhaps there is a way to find a piece of cheap RF scanning hardware
which would output something the laptop could display and crunch.

I thought you all might be interested since it's kinda like a kid's science
project but it could also seriously comfort her or push her completely over
the edge.

Just trying to keep things interesting.

I'm all ears.

-Todd