Although thinking about all the nuclear takes I am constantly bombarded with online maybe giving folks another medium for self expression isn’t the best idea lol

Tune into Citizen’s Band sometime if your country has one lol, it’s a mess but is entertaining

As long as harmonics are properly filtered

So, those harmonics I mentioned, for the FM broadcast band between 88 MHz and 109 MHz, they’re between 176 MHz and 218 MHz.

Guess what?

They’re allocated to other services, specifically television and digital audio broadcasting.

but I’m not convinced that it would “get folks interested in radio”.

People are put off of amateur radio because so many hams are extremely cop-brained and expect everyone should have to comply to century old rules and norms about how to operate otherwise it’s assumed that you’re just blowing up the spectrum

I am a licensed amateur and the only thing that changed from when I was unlicensed is that the boomers on the FM voice repeaters around me won’t yell at me for interrupting their conversation about their ex-wives or whatever now

Good RF circuitry has never been easier to make/acquire now that we live in the era of semiconductors

low power isn’t a thing. My legal amateur radio beacon uses 10 milliwatts and has been heard 13,945 km (8,665 miles) away.

Yeah and my WiFi router blasting 10 times that barely makes it through a couple of walls

Completely dependent on conditions and equipment

I can guarantee if you power up a “low power FM transmission” that the FCC will come and find you and rain hellfire on you.

Also, lmao, there have been some high-profile cases and they have the PIRATE act now but there’s still lots of pirate FM stations out there lol

Pirate radio is cool and good

He rented all types of servers around the country in the cloud and designed a denial of service (DoS) attack

What a uniquely skilled individual!

His feat did not go unnoticed. Over the next year he had meetings with officials from the United States Cyber Command, the branch of the armed forces dedicated to this field. He also met with officers from the Marines, the Space Operations Command and intelligence (NSA). Cáceres shared with them the keys to his successful operation and told them that, in his opinion, similar operations could be carried out with small commandos of two to four hackers. That would give them agility, autonomy and the ability to react.

Me, a cyber-commando, dressing up in full tactical gear, ready for anything, for the trip from my gaming chair to my refrigerator to get beer while I watch my rented Azure servers send spam to a small country’s routers

He tried, but failed. “To do anything you need authorization, which takes six months to get. And when you get it, what you wanted to do no longer works. That is the reality here in the U.S.: we have very, very good people working on our cyber defense, but they are hogtied. They can’t do anything, even though I know we have the resources to do a lot.”

Smh our bureaucratic government won’t approve my request to start a war with the DPRK from my couch

If he did this to any other small nation, especially a US-aligned one, he would be charged with a serious crime. The US can’t openly do electronic warfare but they can stand by and watch this clown do what basically amounts to cyber-terrorism, a least for a little while

Anyway, now that he doxxed himself I hope the DPRK actually gives him something to fear lol

Also

And ever since he took down the internet in North Korea, he has also been approached by the National Security Agency (NSA). Everyone wanted to know how he did it.

Lmao

This is peak journalism, they obviously took him at his word

That’s really cool, especially people getting their licenses to help their community. Hoping you don’t have to encounter the kind of stuff I have, ever.

The bands are usually dead here too lol… except for the repeaters during the day

I’m hoping maybe the clubs and the hams in my city will be better

Would you lose your license for spreading leftist propaganda?

I’m not sure… as long as you aren’t broadcasting (something like a one-way signal, no communication, it has a specific legal definition but yeh) and are just talking to people it’s not explicitly illegal but you would probably get harassed and maybe have false complaints to government agencies made about you. Also in the US your callsign is associated with your legal name and address so people can come find you