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Someone hacked every tornado siren in Dallas. It was loud. (washingtonpost.com)
7 points by tjohns on April 9, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Word on the street is a ham transmitter and a dtmf generator made it possible, and most are still unsecured around the country. Frequencies and codes are to be found by any determined attacker in scanner newsletters and old manuals. A few still use a dial-up activation. A duplex sdr, laptop, and linear amp should make it easy. Just blast your signal and move before you get triangulated.

Beware mucking with emergency systems is big boy jailtime.




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