I read this awesome review of hackmud , it made me think of other games about hacking or games that involve actual hacking.
I have only played Uplink and TIS-100, I have heard the others are pretty great. You should play them and tell me how they are.
There are reports of Malware in the PS Vita Piracy scene. When you have to pursue shady enterprises to use the hardware you own this is always the risk you take. Consoles have the coolest security hardware, but it is aimed at stopping piracy rather than protecting users.
The Grey area jailbreak tools live in make it really hard for users to find the real tools. Instead the end up with malware.
Here is 50 minutes on why this was going to happen.
Reading: The Puzzle Palace
I managed my first SO-50 pass yesterday. Using a tape measure 70cm yagi I made last year and my baofeng I was able to hear chatter on the repeater for about 30 seconds.
As mediocre as it is I am really happy with success on my first try, I did attempt to listen to another pass of SO-50, but only heard a two second chirp. I used gpredict on my stream 7 for satellite tracking, and a cheap compass app on android to verify which way the building pointed.
Next I am going to try using an sdr for the downlink capture. I am hoping it will be a little easier to get the yagi pointed the correct way and give me a chance of finding the signal mid pass.
The excellent newsbeuter says I have 80 rss feeds that I pay occasional attention to. There are habit sites I visit like reddit and hackernews, but I fall back on the rss feeds when want to focus and read.
I put the rss feeds from peoples blogs in my reader, normally when I read an awesome article via HN or reddit. People don't normally post more than 3 times a month. This means there isn't so much I can't read it, but just enough that I can process it when I want to.
" This article will still be here when you're done, and blogs are dumb. "
It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .
Reading: Butter from my Feed Reader
Due to a Chatham House report on the latest dangers of Satellite hacking uhf_satcom was on this weeks risky business talking about Satellite pirates and exploit possibilities on the birds.
Not the Satellite Pirates of the 90s trying to access free TV and not arrgg Pirates out at sea(though maybe), but people taking advantage of the great accessible repeater in the sky.
A terrestrial repeater takes in a signal on an input frequency and rebroadcasts it on an output frequency. The repeater normally has better antennas system and is situation in a physical position to give the best area coverage.
A satellite repeater does the same thing, from its vantage point in space it can cover a much larger area. There are amateur radio satellites that provide this functionality, but from low earth orbit.
The pirates on Risky Business are probably using a satellite in geostationary orbit and taking advantage of it being a dumb pipe pointing back at earth.
Reading: TLE Files