Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by mint2 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:42PM
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Wouldn’t intentional interference be very illegal to do at random? Sure, hard to get caught but isn’t it illegal?
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Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by thatguy0900 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:45PM
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Jamming is very illegal in the US at least.
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
Now might be the time to do it though, maybe everyone at the fcc will be fired before your caught.
Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by smitelli on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:52PM
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If you’ve got bored hams around, they’ll catch you.
Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by reaperman on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:21PM
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I doubt the FCC will be disbanded in a way that prevents any enforcement of anti-jamming rules. But the only thing local hamsters would do is report you to the FCC, so if it were dissolved as GP posits, it wouldn't matter which hams find you.
Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by Etheryte on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:31PM
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Drones are used in active warfare as we speak, legality in civil use is pretty irrelevant in that context.
Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by mint2 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:52PM
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So you’re clarifying that for 0.1% of HN the legality is not an issue as if those in war zones were wondering?
Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by internet101010 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:52PM
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I feel like I should have the right to block someone trying to use a drone to look inside of my windows.
Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by rukuu001 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:43PM
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I know a guy (Australia) who does this regularly. If a drone flys over his back yard he activates his jammer and the thing makes a controlled vertical descent to his lawn.
100% of the time its neighbourhood kids trying out their toy, and they need to come beg for it back. Then he has the chat about privacy etc etc.
The jammer itself came from Alibaba I think.
Re:Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Softwa...
by brokenmachine on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:32PM
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Nobody is doing that.
But the legal way to do that is by closing your blinds.