[Cialug] Mini-SETI

[Dan Hockey]

Naturally, she's a bit paranoid, but since she already has a laptop running
linux

Do a clean install and encrypt the drive, it's easy to in 16.04lts.

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> The yagi antennae( if they have it in stock) will work with their rtl
> using one of their adapters, if you want to get general direction of where
> the signals are coming from.
>
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://hakshop.myshopify.com/collections/wireless-gear
>>
>> You could start off with the usb rtl sdr receiver. search for "linux sdr"
>> there's all sort of sdr info to get started with.
>> Then there's the pod casts on hak5. The ones on sdr would be good place
>> to start.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
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