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Re:Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50... by satanspastaroll on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:41AM (#21122928)
I'd imagine it to be trivial to also send malicious signals and jam the system.
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Re:Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:35AM (#21123889)
That sounds like any radio frequency though. Alao a great way to get the FCC knocking on your door sooner or later.
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Re:Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50... by satanspastaroll on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:02AM (#21124046)
True you could create a trash beacon for any frequency, but as you said it'd be very "loud". Disrupting service with seemingly innocent messages would be much harder to detect though
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Re:Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:13AM (#21124423)
Oh I see, you're suggesting a very specified attack. Sounds like a smaller scale Stingray or something, but for beepers.

Edit: Yeah I'm not entirely familiar with interference detection, but I would always suspect some HAM somewhere will figure it out and report it.

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