The airwaves can be a cacophonous place. Signals from GPS satellites exist alongside bluetooth headsets and the dispatch channels of police stations. The emergence of low-cost Software Defined Radios (SDRs) have made this world more accessible than ever. In this talk we will discuss how to join radio waves with the contextual, public information that helps make sense of them. Not only is it possible to use "Automatic Identification System" broadcasts from container ships to understand exactly what’s inside them, but ADS-B transmissions from aircraft overhead can be cross-referenced with the FAA to understand who owns them and where they’re going. By the end of this talk you will be able to identify the particular broadcast frequency of any McDonald’s drive-through in the country and will learn how to locate suspicious cell phone base stations.
- FCC Spectrum Map: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-allochrt.pdf
- FCC Spectrum Sellers: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-314A2.pdf
- FCC Spectrum Buyers: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-314A3.pdf
- 700mhz Auction News: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/spectrum-auction-finally-ends-total-take-198-billion/164523
- GQRX radio receiver: http://gqrx.dk/
- Satellite Sounds: Capturing Satellite Imagery: http://satellite-sounds.dhruvmehrotra.info/
- Cocoa1090: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/cocoa1090.html
- Buzzfeed Spy Place Story: https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/hidden-spy-planes?utm_term=.aeKdYN3E0L#.ga3LjbzQ0W
- ProPublica Mar-a-Lago investiation: https://www.propublica.org/article/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago
- Defense Information Systems Agency best practices: https://iase.disa.mil/Pages/index.aspx
- RTL-SDR Hobbyist Guide: https://www.surviveuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Hobbyists-Guide-To-RTL-SDR-Carl-Laufer.pdf
- Boeing SBInet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBInet
- ULS: http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/index.htm?job=transaction&page=weekly
- License view: http://reboot.fcc.gov/license-view/
- Spectrum Wrangler: https://github.com/marcdacosta/spectrum-wrangler
- Ambient Shipping: https://github.com/marcdacosta/ambient-shipping