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Revolting Radios

OssmannSpill

Ossmann and Spill presents revolting radios: There are many Software Defined Radios (SDRs) available, with a great deal of time and effort having gone in to their design.

Summary

Architecture and Background

There are many Software Defined Radios (SDRs) available, with a great deal of time and effort having gone in to their design.

Vulnerability Analysis

These are not those radios.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

We present four radios that we have designed using crude, novel, and sometimes ridiculous methods for transmitting and receiving signals.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

The arrival of SDR allowed more hackers than ever to experiment with radio protocols, but we're still using hardware built by other people. In the time honored hacker tradition of rolling our own tools, we'll demonstrate four simple radios that can be home-built using commonly available parts for little to no cost.

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