Raspi + SDR + ADS-B = awesome
A lot of people have combined a RasPi and a SDR dongle to get a low power consumption ADS-B tracker. Tomasz Miklas has created an image for the Raspberry Pi, that has everything that is needed to run your own aircraft tracking "service" already set up. I've finally had a chance to experiment with it and this will be my short review.
An intro to SDR
For the past two months I've been reading about SDR and everything related to radio telecommunications. For those that don't know what SDR is (and are too bored to click the previous link), Software Defined Radio is a system that implements hardware subsystems of a typical radio in software. People have been designing their own SDRs with FPGAs for quite some time now, but in the last year there has been a huge "revolution". It turns out that a lot of cheap USB digital TV tuners based on the Realtek RTL2832U chip can be tuned at a wide range of frequencies.
My Kippo findings after three months
Three months ago I installed Kippo in a low end VPS of mine. About a month after that, I got bored of manually checking kippo everyday so I made a small script to automate the process. Fast forward another two months and here we're.
Making an ugly Ethernet tap
A long time ago, I saw this in the Hak5 store. After reading about it in mossmann's blog, I found somewhat interesting that using this easily built device you can HACK THE PLANET.
An ethernet tap is a passive device used to monitor traffic between two hosts using a third one. For more info on network taps read here.
Arp spoofing with Python
I decided to reinvent the wheel by making an ARP spoofer in python using raw packets, thinking it would be a nice practice.
