I just purchased one of these, did I fall for the meme or can

i'd use it to set up a police/fire scanner. i want to get one, but the good ones are kind of expensive and it would become a huge time hog for me

I got one but my city seems to be pretty boring and I believe emergency services here now use digital radio.

I'm told its worth getting a better antenna than the one that comes stock.

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>>59996425
What is it? Some sort of antenna or something?

>>59996436
This was sub 10$

>>59996477
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Software-defined_radio

>More expensive SDR's are purpose built for transmitting, and can handle things such as GSM spoofing, where an unencrypted GSM tower can be simulated to capture SMS in a cleartext fashion.
What is this useful for?

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>>59996485
can confirm

>>59998354
My purpose built open source sdr can't transmit and receive at the same time.
They aren't all for spoofing

>>59998489
Yea. Just curious to know what the spoofing is good for.

>>59998511
Testing firewall and IDS

>>59998489
I guess to eavesdrop on unencrypted sms and calls.

>>59998534
>>59998541
Thanks.

As far as I know all sms and calls are unencrypted.
Could come in handy if it can do that but you can't really decide who you get connected to.

>>59998567
>As far as I know all sms and calls are unencrypted.
Quite the opposite. Easy to decrypt though with modern consumer-grade hardware

>>59996425
Can we tap a ding dong dong with this?
Or is there anyway which we can easily wiretap

>>59998581
Ah okay, I see. Might come in handy desu.

>>59996425
I have same thing, anon, I use it to find frequencies for those keyless entries on cars. That is all the antenna does, just receives doesn't transmit.

>>60000444
Wait, don't you still need an encryption key to unlock the car, or is that just for remote starting?

>>60000532
im just viewing the frequency not trying to unlock a car, I don't have many friends that have newer cars so I haven't had a chance to try it,

Even if its encrypted Im sure it will still show the frequency, been seeing a lot of fob being 315/433 mhz.

Sammy kamkar is my favorite applied hacker, and I am not sure if this method still works on newer cars, but interesting watch.

https://youtu.be/ARrlhlQiFzM?t=261

>>59996425
Here in Europe almost everything is encrypted so no point getting one.

>>60000667
>Marketplace

My wife hates that show. Probably because it shows her what a stupid consumer she is.

They got a little edgier as of late, but still, the core research is good.

>When they catch the vent cleaner guys who don't do shit.
>When they explain how come no one goes after Indian telemarketers
>When they explain how that real retarded alternative to vaccines where you drink severely diluted germs is retarded

>>59996425
Bought one in France.
Absolutely useless, can't find any station. Had mor fun with my baofeng uv-5R. The only interest is to actually use it as a TV DvB-T reciever. If you like SDR, just use a websdr from russia, comfy as hell and you can pretend you are in an old james bond movie