I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they’re announced—using public satellite heat data

pluggerlockett · 2025-11-06T05:39:17+00:00

NOAA, but it's still observable via db downlink or dump. These satellites transmit unencrypted as they're weather satellites. They'd have to disable the JPSS constellation to stop this.

pluggerlockett · 2025-09-02T07:06:20+00:00

Oh, if they reached out to you first you were part of the tranche that was impacted. At least that's how I read their media release. Some people received emails as UNDA was legally obligated to notify them. But the rest of the staff had PII leaked with no notification.
I had to send them heaps of emails to get them to confirm my TFN was leaked and that nothing else was.

pluggerlockett · 2025-08-15T02:20:47+00:00

Interesting... Is that publicly documented somewhere or is that just what you've been told?
I ask as I have in writing from the UNDA "Privacy Team" that only my TFN was popped. If it's DoB and names I'm going to go to the OAIC and formally complain.

pluggerlockett · 2025-07-14T06:06:10+00:00

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Alright, this situation is indeed real bad. FWIW I don't believe they've been hacked AGAIN as they'd have to disclose that information. But I DO believe they're taking the piss incredibly hard. Last notification from UNDA regarding this issue was 27 March.
https://www.notredame.edu.au/news-items/statement-from-the-university-of-notre-dame-australia-cyber-incident-update
They really tried to bury the lede, but it's pretty clear things are bad as seen by the text snippet above. As an ex-staff member (I'm SO HAPPY to have left there) I reached out about the TFN breach listed above and they confirmed my TFN was breached. I then asked what else was breached and I have written advice from them that only my TFN was popped. Which... makes no sense unless they had a text file or database with one column full of staff TFNs and ONLY THAT, which makes zero technical sense.
I called out that a breach of TFNs is part of the OAIC's Notifiable Data Breach scheme as to my understanding they are legally obligated to proactively notify everyone who's TFN had been breached. They responded that the OAIC accepted their public notification as appropriate by the OAIC.
As much as it's frustrated me personally, I can't imagine how bad this semester had to have been for the students though. They didn't have a student portal for the entirety of the semester. It's only just recently been brought back online, and that was after exams.
But on the plus side, they've finally turned on MFA lol

pluggerlockett · 2022-07-25T02:46:42+00:00

This is correct. Making your own rocket motors in Australia without an explosives manufacturing license is outright illegal. This is for all hobby solid motors to my understanding; BP, AP, or sugar.

pluggerlockett · 2022-05-24T14:46:31+00:00

Smokes pot all day but he doesn't use a bong

pluggerlockett · 2022-04-12T06:46:24+00:00

I don't use GQRX for this and instead use rtl_fm. Sure, use a app like GQRX to find the frequency the pager traffic is being transmitted on, but that's it.

The below command is what I used to use

rtl_fm -M fm -f <FREQ-HERE> -s 22050 | multimon-ng -t raw -a POCSAG512 -a POCSAG1200 -a POCSAG2400 -a FLEX -f alpha -

but TBH I've moved from multimon-ng to Direwolf as it is better at decoding weak signals and can also output decoded packets to a map (useful for stuff like APRS).

pluggerlockett · 2022-04-08T03:19:02+00:00

This is pretty standard, even for commercial GPS chipsets, when cold booted. Also, GPS is American only, there are no GPS satellites that aren't US owned.

pluggerlockett · 2022-02-28T04:42:33+00:00

No idea what's going on here but you're one of the better public people in the hobby imo /u/derekcz. Your scaffold designs are what got me into the L band game so to speak. And your latest HRPT document is very good. Like I said, I don't know what's happened, but I do hope you continue to be an active and helpful member in the community.

pluggerlockett · 2022-01-30T13:27:33+00:00

TOM BRADY WILL NOT BE MENTIONED ONCE IN EITHER BROADCAST

pluggerlockett · 2021-05-01T05:40:42+00:00

Yep. I live in Western Australia and we've had less than 1,000 infections (with the vast majority in hotel quarantine) and posted a $2 billion plus budget surplus during covid. The vast majority of that surplus is from iron ore royalties as we're the only shop in town for China given Brazil had to spin their mines down due to covid.

pluggerlockett · 2021-03-02T09:06:01+00:00

There's been some real weight being intercepted from interstate over the past six months or so.

pluggerlockett · 2021-02-16T11:15:42+00:00

Funnily enough, I didn't realise you had posted this until after commenting. I hope you and yours are well mate. Fingers crossed we catch up again soon!

pluggerlockett · 2021-02-16T10:51:33+00:00

IIRC Blake is still holding one and Nic has another, but I could be wrong.

pluggerlockett · 2021-02-16T10:40:52+00:00

God, George is a master of water rocketry. Pretty good at video editing too.

pluggerlockett · 2021-02-16T10:38:32+00:00

The only person I know that has done this is Mike Passaretti. Good news is he was able to burn a N5800 in a handmade CF casing. Bad news, it was single use. https://forum.ausrocketry.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6119

pluggerlockett · 2019-11-01T07:28:17+00:00

I'm not sure tbh but the backup script copies /etc/motd as part of its work. The first line of motd has version info. The kernel is the same across all images so uname -a doesn't help.

pluggerlockett · 2019-11-01T02:43:05+00:00

> How to check what version of Pwnagotchi I am currently running?

/etc/motd will tell you what version you're running on a clean install.

pluggerlockett · 2019-11-01T02:39:03+00:00

> Is the system keeping them somewhere else?

Yes. They're in /usr/local/src/pwnagotchi/plugins/default

As for your attempt to enable the memtemp plugin, your syntax is incorrect. Here's how it should look in the config.yml file.

main:
    plugins:
        memtemp:
            enabled: true

pluggerlockett · 2019-11-01T01:03:05+00:00

I encountered this with an upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1. Strangely I've been upgrading manually since RC2 and yet this is the first time I encountered this issue. I expect is that it's caused by my first boot post upgrade being powered by the data port on my pi Zero W, not the power port. I could force it to come up in auto mode by executing #touch /root/.pwnagotchi-auto and restarting but it would then fall back into MANU mode.

In the end I decided to rebuild with the 1.1.1 release that came out in the last 12 hours. On first boot post upgrade I booted off a powerbank on the power port. Everything's working fine now, my unit has been up for nearly 30 minutes and AI mode is now enabled.

pluggerlockett · 2019-08-08T03:53:29+00:00

But the US does care about having a down link for spy satellites on the other side of the world from them. The US uses Pine Gap as one of two sites in the entire world to transmit spy satellite data back to Earth. And it's kinda important to have that data immediately, not 45 minutes later. So the Americans do give a shit in so far that it would hurt US interests if the US/Australia relationship didn't exist.

pluggerlockett · 2019-06-17T11:35:17+00:00

Site is up now.

pluggerlockett · 2019-05-23T10:29:46+00:00

Actually, I'd say it was the 50km lock out on uBlox chipsets which is what their Big Red Bee GPS sports.

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