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Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware.

24 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 7 stories, 17 comments · first 2016-03-01 · latest 2026-08-27

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  1. …known exploits which can misuse the compute hardware as an antenna, e.g. my first search result: https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio (Older nerds may remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking ) > Magic is not real…
  2. …bus (sounds a bit iffy ;) Code: https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer Based on the work of https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
  3. Modern CPUs can produce an AM radio signal too https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
  4. Absolutely: "System Bus Radio" https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
    comment by belter · 2022-03-30 · in How is portable AM radio possible?
  5. If the network is down...Carry on. The music can't stop. "System Bus Radio" https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
  6. …to get this stuff to work is really hard in practice. Several years ago, we were playing with https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio to work, but we couldn't, even though we had the right MacBooks.
  7. …[1], coil whine and power fluctuations can be used (it has been shown) to exfiltrate data. [1] https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
  8. It's https://fulldecent.github.io/system-bus-radio/ ( https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio )
  9. …the TEST-DATA file. We just received the first field report of success with the M1 MacBook Pro here https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio/blob/master/T...
  10. …might find this interesting too, leaking AM emissions from a computer by twiddling the memory bus - https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio I made a silly program to play .wav files based on that.
    comment by anfractuosity · 2020-04-27 · in Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels
  11. USB serial dongle? pah, use the system-bus on the motherboard ;) https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
    comment by BuildTheRobots · 2018-12-06 · in Serial Port SDR
  12. There's also https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio Sidechannels everywhere!
    comment by 7373737373 · 2018-06-26 · in Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]
  13. …radio to download off that data machine. This is shaping up to be a pretty cool attack PoC! [0]: https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio [1]: https://fulldecent.github.io/system-bus-radio [2]: https://github.com/quiet/quiet-js
    comment by jzelinskie · 2018-02-10 · in Quiet for Android – TCP over sound
  14. https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-02-07 · in The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
  15. Or how about the AM radio transmitter that is built into all x86 hardware - https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
  16. Couple this with a System Bus AM Radio [1] for super fun times [1]: https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
  17. Based on the awesome work at https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio I use PDM to output a .wav file via the system bus, and pick up via a radio.