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by Paul Marks - 27 December 2011 (newscientist) A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution's celebrated lecture theatre in London. Before the crowd, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was adjusting arcane apparatus as he prepared to demonstrate an emerging technological wonder: a long-range wireless communication system developed by his boss, the Italian radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. The aim was to showcase publicly for the first time that Morse code messages could be sent wirelessly over long distances. Around 300 miles away, Marconi was preparing to send a signal to London from a clifftop station in Poldhu, Cornwall, UK. Yet before the demonstration could begin, the apparatus in the lecture theatre began to tap out a message. At first, it spelled out just one word repeated over and over. Then it changed into a facetious poem accusing Marconi of "diddling the public". Their demonstration had been hacked - and this was more than 100 years before the mischief playing out on the internet today. Who was the Royal Institution hacker? How did the cheeky messages get there? And why? Full article |
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 09:16:56 AM » |
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Quite interesting article, menotu. Thank you.
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2012, 09:28:33 AM » |
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A white hat.
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2012, 09:32:50 AM » |
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A white hat.
Yep. Probably the first "electronic age" white hat.  |
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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2012, 11:29:36 AM » |
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The Two sides of this argument still exist to this day, security people on one side, bad hackers on the other.
Todays bad guys are outright trying to destroy the whole communications systems.
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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2012, 12:34:15 PM » |
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I always thought it would be interesting to learn Morse code...
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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2012, 12:51:55 PM » |
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I always thought it would be interesting to learn Morse code...
In elementary school I learned the Morse code alphabet. In 5TH grade, as I recall. I was one of the few who did well on the test. Now I can't recall it well enough to use it, I'm sad to say. Too many years of not using it, I suppose. |
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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2012, 12:54:44 PM » |
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So....jammers have been causing QRM since the beginning! *facepalms*
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2012, 03:02:53 PM » |
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I did about the same as Neal, 4th grade, and Scouts, we had to know and use Morse Code on field trips...Still, now I can't remember much except...3-dots, 3-dashes, 3-dots......that was drove into us without letup and I still can hear the Scoutmaster say, never ever forget it....(he made sure we didn't too) I bet Neal remembers that part as well!  |
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2012, 05:15:54 PM » |
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But, as author Sungook Hong relates in the book Wireless, his ambitions were frustrated by Marconi's broad patents, leaving him embittered towards the Italian. Maskelyne would soon find a way to vent his spleen. even back then, broad patents were responsible for holding back development ...... but still we refuse to learn .... |
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« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2012, 06:26:30 PM » |
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« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2012, 06:39:04 PM » |
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Quite interesting article, menotu. Thank you.
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2012, 07:00:17 PM » |
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I always thought it would be interesting to learn Morse code...
In elementary school I learned the Morse code alphabet. In 5TH grade, as I recall. I was one of the few who did well on the test. Now I can't recall it well enough to use it, I'm sad to say. Too many years of not using it, I suppose. Somewhere down in the basement, I have the US Navy Morse Code Training Course. A huge stack of 78 rpm vinyl records. Maybe as many as 50. I started one time (back when I still had a 78 rpm turntable) to copy them to reel-to-reel tape, but since I could only do it at normal speed, I soon lost interest and gave it up. Too late now. Actually, I believe it's down there - I haven't thrown it out, but I haven't seen it in years and years. And no, I never learned much of it. S-O-S (for emergencies) and A-N (for radio navigation beacons) was about as far as I got. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2012, 07:56:59 PM » |
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S-O-S in Morse code became an international standard for distress signals in 1906. As a spoken distress phrase it was replaced by "Mayday" in 1927.
Whatever for?
I asked my nephew (who is a sea captain). Why couldn't you just say "SOS"?
He had no real answer, but he told me as his best advice that if I really wanted help I shouldn't bother about morseing "SOS" or anything else.
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« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2012, 08:22:54 PM » |
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I was quite adept at sending/receiving morse code ..... in the mid 70s or so ..... got my radio officer's ticket sometime about then. I haven't used it much since ...... and would need a loooooong refresher course, I suspect, if I wanted to |
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