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MRT Magazine said:From a different case in 2001 -
"Denver's teenage hacker bought a surplus radio that was once used at the city's airport and reprogrammed it to duplicate a valid police radio ID using software possibly purchased on eBay, said Gary Pasicznyk, electronic technician supervisor with the Denver Police Department.
The boy used the radio to chat with a police helicopter pilot and to call in false accident reports. At least once, police sent cars to assist an officer in distress, only to find there was no such officer, Pasicznyk said. The boy would also “drive around his neighborhood and attempt to call in license plates,”he said.
Police located the hacker by letting him continue to transmit on the stolen ID, moving the legitimate radio off that ID to avoid confusion. “We were able to partition that ID and put him on one select frequency,” Pasicznyk said. “That way, we were able to use direction-finding equipment to locate the suspect and, further, arrest him and find his programming software.”
Denver's 800 MHz trunked system employs M/A-COM's Enhanced Digital Access Communications System (EDACS) technology. To avert future attacks and gain other security advantages, the police are phasing in M/A-COM's EDACS Security Key technology, Pasicznyk said."
RF-Intel said:Many members of this forum may recall a local man by the name of Dave Triska, and his legal woes. This man was a hobbyist, and was charged with felonies simply for offering programming of an EDACS radio.
I'll dispense a little unwanted advice. As you proclaim to be a member of Aurora Fire Explorers, you may want to consider getting the radios programmed in a legit manner. But if you do not, I would rather not hear anything about them here.
As someone said in a previous post of yours, "Recklessness is killing this hobby."
MRT Magazine said:From a different case in 2001 -
"Denver's teenage hacker bought a surplus radio that was once used at the city's airport and reprogrammed it to duplicate a valid police radio ID using software possibly purchased on eBay, said Gary Pasicznyk, electronic technician supervisor with the Denver Police Department.
The boy used the radio to chat with a police helicopter pilot and to call in false accident reports. At least once, police sent cars to assist an officer in distress, only to find there was no such officer, Pasicznyk said. The boy would also “drive around his neighborhood and attempt to call in license plates,”he said.
Police located the hacker by letting him continue to transmit on the stolen ID, moving the legitimate radio off that ID to avoid confusion. “We were able to partition that ID and put him on one select frequency,” Pasicznyk said. “That way, we were able to use direction-finding equipment to locate the suspect and, further, arrest him and find his programming software.”
Denver's 800 MHz trunked system employs M/A-COM's Enhanced Digital Access Communications System (EDACS) technology. To avert future attacks and gain other security advantages, the police are phasing in M/A-COM's EDACS Security Key technology, Pasicznyk said."
mhaynes41 said:<SNIP - Quote about Dave Triska and the 16 year-old punk>
There is a little more to this story on how he was nabed and how he was taken down I know I was the one who helped bust him. And the worst thing is that he never learned his lession.
RF-Intel said:mhaynes41 said:<SNIP - Quote about Dave Triska and the 16 year-old punk>
There is a little more to this story on how he was nabed and how he was taken down I know I was the one who helped bust him. And the worst thing is that he never learned his lession.
Are you referring to Triska or the Misguided Youth?
I'd be interested to know more either way, if you can tell!