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Re:LineageOS 18.1 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @02:21PM (#26664194)
https://www.redpitaya.com/f135/spectrum-analyzer

> Frequency span is from DC up to 62.5MHz

This seems rather limiting.

Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:32AM (#25831191)
> I don’t believe there has been a single conviction based upon evidence gathered by these vans

According to the article they were not intended for convictions but instead to get a search warrant and then gather evidence for a conviction.

So who knows how many convictions were started because of the vans. Though I agree that the fear factor probably did help more than the search warrants.

Re:Doom (1993) Encryption on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:32PM (#21428558)
Similar efforts to hide string literals were used 5 years earlier in one of the first Internet worms: Morris worm.

http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/tech-reps/823.pdf sect. 5.1.7