UPDATE #5: Lackluster update and new blog: https://medium.com/@lucky225/pueblo-so-called-citizens-arrest-beating-update-men-charged-with-felonies-by-district-attorney-d59fea47d553 UPDATE #4: Lackluster coverage and PPD Press Release 4/20/23: Lackluster released a video that details most of the important details of this case: In under 2 hours after this was released PPD released the following statement on their Facebook page…

I recently discovered PG&E will let you sign up for electricity online without providing your SSN. Their website offered an option for “Alternate Identification”, so I chose it and proceeded to sign up for service. The only thing required was your name, “alternate mailing address”(i.e. …

This Defcon I’m stuck at home as are others, so Av1d, speexvocon, wagwan_piffting_blud and I formed a team to play the Project Mammoth Challenge. Challenge #1 Metadata FTW! This one was pretty easy, just look at the metadata to get the key. Fired up Audacity and Edit -> Metadata:

By now most infosec professionals are aware of various ways SMS text messaging can be hijacked. For example so-called “SIM Swap” attacks, SS7 attacks, Port-out fraud, etc. …

In an NPRM the FCC released on August 26th, 2020 the FCC has proposed a “nominal fee” of $50.00 …

I didn’t want to write about this but I see a lot of people getting the details wrong — that includes myself — due to a lot of speculation. I’m going to give a short timeline on what happened exactly. …

With the mid term elections approaching I’ve had several friends on Facebook recently praising automatic voter registration with Driver License applications/renewals and encouraging people to get registered to vote and get your voice out there. For some of us it’s not that simple. What people fail to realize often times…

Update 10/3/2018: Thanks to everyone who read the article, listened to the phone call in it and shared and made noise. The ARRL is now in talks with the FCC! http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-fcc-discussing-issue-of-uncertified-imported-vhf-uhf-transceivers After I published yesterday’s correspondence with the FCC, Laura Smith reached out and stated that she misinterpreted what I…

The FCC has backpedaled on everything in this article, please go here and read the new article: https://medium.com/@lucky225/fcc-back-peddles-all-transceivers-capable-of-transmitting-on-frequencies-that-require-40377a3722c5 Did the FCC just make Baofengs illegal? On Monday, September 24th, 2018 the FCC issued Public Notice DA 18–980, Enforcement Advisory № 2018–03 that sent the Amateur Radio community into a frenzy across several Facebook groups. Hackaday went as…