From: Eric Engle (engleerica_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 08:04:24 PST
Well of course it wouldn't work. Do you think the military would use a civilian
frequency for any of that stuff - all of which is almost certainly encrypted
traffic?
Mind you, with Viewframe you could hack around the script and modify the commo
data... and voila, perfect! A new weapon for any terrorist with a mortar!
People, newts are hopefully not about killing people. Please exercise some
common sense. Put the weapon down.
--- Mark Bock <markbvt_at_adelphia.net> wrote:
> >Say, some time last Spring/Summer there was talk at NTLK about a Newton
> >former in military service with full custom-application suite. I faintly
> >remember some issue with it not being able to be uploaded to a desktop
> >machine, and now this EEUnprotect-thread brings back the memory.
> >
> >What ever became of this story - have these apps been recovered? If so,
> >where can they be found?
>
> That was back in August, and yes, a friend of mine brought an MP130
> back from Def Con that had been in military service. It had the
> software on it used for calling in artillery strikes, but
> unfortunately it proved impossible to move the software anywhere
> except onto my MP2100, where it didn't work. But I couldn't move it
> either from the 130 or my 2100 onto my Mac.
>
> But the software didn't want to work without the radio and GPS hooked
> up anyway. It would start up but then keep getting communications
> error dialog boxes that would cover up the main screen and wouldn't
> go away.
>
> --mark
>
> --
> . . . . .
> mark bock
> KB1EXL
> markbvt_at_adelphia.net
>
> "A youth who can't hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in
> three-quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his
> grandmother every time, at a hundred." --Mark Twain
>
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