[aprssig] Another Bootlegger?

Steve Dimse steve at dimse.com
Mon Jan 5 12:03:27 EST 2009


Yes, the path of the station would oing-pong, but by being active, you  
could limit the positions sent and the load on on the system to the  
minimum, while at the same time assuring that the user's real  
positions only appeared on last position pages like findU's find.cgi  
for a few seconds.

Of course, if you do this, expect the users to get wise, if they are  
bootleggers they will start using different calls, maybe even ones  
that look like real calls.

Steve

On Jan 5, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Steve Dimse <steve at dimse.com> wrote:
>> If you want to jam efi, the best way would be direct on the aprs IS.
>> Ideally, the daemon would listen for a report to come in, and then
>> generate a random posit (or even a fixed posit in an ocean). That
>> keeps the load to a minimum and makes it almost certain no one could
>> ever get a good posit on the Internet servers.
>
> wouldn't that ping-pong from the transmitted posit to the bogus one?
>
> I thought about generating random posits all over the globe
> continuously (with a reasonable interval), inserted,as you say,
> directly into the APRS-IS.
>
> I also thought maybe we should give 'em the benefit of the doubt since
> apparently no one has heard them on RF yet, so we don't really _know_
> if they are illegal (e.g. CW or direct IDs, maybe with NOGATE) - but,
> on the other claw, with the equipment their packets are advertising,
> that does seem incredibly unlikely.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
>
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