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Cyber Explorer

Personal blog · blog.cyberexplorer.mesystemshardwaresecurity

Cyber Explorer is a personal blog at blog.cyberexplorer.me about systems, hardware and security. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Sniffing off the air NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE packets for under $30”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts cover sniffing and decoding traffic from internet-connected light bulbs using an RTL-SDR receiver. The one comment only links to the blog while suggesting a down converter to reach the 2.4GHz band.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

My exploration in cyberspace - software, hardware and anything in between

Most-linked posts?

  1. Sniffing off the air NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE packets for under $30
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-01-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. You can plug a down converter into it so that the 2.4GHz is within range of the RTL-SDR device: http://blog.cyberexplorer.me/2014/01/sniffing-and-decoding-n...

    Comment linking /2014/01/sniffing-and-decoding-nrf24l01-and.html

    on “Hacking into Internet-Connected Light Bulbs”
  2. Submitted Sniffing off the air NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE packets for under $30 as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted WiFi Analyzer under $30 – Convert 2,4GHz to 400MHz and read with SDR as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Improving VM to VM network throughput on an ESXi platform as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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