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Bastian Bloessl
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Bastian Bloessl's personal blog at bastibl.net covers security and hardware. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Reversing Bus Telemetry (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bastian Bloessl's posts on reverse engineering radio protocols, such as decoding bus-stop display telemetry and Wi-Fi spectrum scanning on ath9k cards. The comments cite them as background, not as praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm Bastian Bloessl, a Research Group Leader at the Secure Mobile Networking Lab, TU Darmstadt. Checkout my blog, projects, publications, and resume; or connect on Github, Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook.
Most-linked posts?
- Reversing Bus Telemetry (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-21
What Hacker News says?
This 2015 post (Bastian Bloessl) digs in a bit, then point at a short video. https://www.bastibl.net/reversing-bus-telemetry/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJwQUHeWftc Useful 'Darc side of Munich' page: https://apollo.open-resource.org/mission:log:2014:08:08:darc...
Comment linking /reversing-bus-telemetry/
on “Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays (2013)”Submitted Reversing Bus Telemetry (2015) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionActually A while ago, it was discovered Atheros ath9k and ath10k based wifi cards have a spectrum scan feature. There was some work in reverse engineering the data format. I'm not sure if theres been similar developments for recent devices. https://www.bastibl.net/ath9k-spectrum-scanning/
Comment linking /ath9k-spectrum-scanning/
on “The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)”Submitted Reversing Mobile Traffic Lights as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted GQRX for Digital Radio Signals Reverse Eng as a story · 1 points
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