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Old article, but interesting one I found while trying to research blocking my Nu-truck's location tracking.

Old article, but interesting one I found while trying to research blocking my Nu-truck's location tracking.

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Couple years ago on vacation this guy just started telling me how easy it would be to knock power out. Idk shit about it but you know how you’ll see those fenced off areas with all the sliver grey, I think they’re called transformers. He said you put a couple bullets in the right area on those you can have the power out for a long time

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have the power out for a long time

Because certain components in that system cost tens of millions of dollars each and there's only a couple of spares for the entire united states.

Just a bit of fyi.

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Tens of millions of dollars for the transformers?

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Some large components of those substations are unserviceable, cost millions, take 12-18 months to produce, we don’t have spares, and they are made in China.

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sub stations I believe is shat you are describing

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"a long time" we had a somthing happen to our transformer up in town power was out for like 4 hours. some personal airplane went down near by and a peice of shrapnel damaged the transformer. i still dont see how a peice of shrapnel from literally 35 miles away hit it but im guessing they didnt want to admit a raccoon got in the transformer and shorted the whole system out lol

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Something like that happened at my workplace a couple years ago when they found the problem a rat had chewed into the wire and a snake had bitten the rat.

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a rat had chewed into the wire and a snake had bitten the rat

You're talking in code, right?

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I've heard this too but never heard what "the right area" is. Starting a fire there would probably be easier.

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There's a drain plug for the high insulation oil. Pull that out and it won't be able to switch circuits without arcing and damaging the contacts

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Sounds like it would arc on you and damage you when taking it out

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You could drain it through a bullet hole.

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switching is rare, and there are tens of gallons of oil in the units to drain out

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I keep hearing this. A couple bullets into a sub station. But no one ever gives any technical details.

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This was literally some random guy in a hot tub telling me this

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But you're not the first person to say this on an internet message board.

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I just want to block cell phone signals in my car so everyone within a mile of me will get off the motherfucking phone and drive

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They have something like that on that signaljammer dot com site, expensive though.

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They'll just be troubleshooting their phone.

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And An extra special hello to all you glow niggers anticipating some useful material from this post and it’s comments…

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For the longest time, Movie Theater owners were using jammers to block out cell phone usage. However I have seen some "legalish" ways of companies using them. For example, a particular business in Evandale, Ohio has (at one point) an AT&T antenna on their campus and the signal is so strong it renders all other cell phone vendors and GPS devices practically useless.

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You know whats REALLY REALLY REALLY EASY?

Jamming police and FBI ham radios.

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... really?

This will probably be useful knowledge for when any of them actually start going door-to-door.

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If systems are so fragile that losing a GPS signal could wreak havoc, then that system is not really well designed or fault tolerant. Cool article, but I think there is a bit of fear-mongering going on there.

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If systems are so fragile that losing a GPS signal could wreak havoc, then that system is not really well designed or fault tolerant.

yep, it's BS, if you lose GPS you can switch to NDB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-directional_beacon

some missiles even track location by looking at the stars

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Those are antique. Most transport aircraft have a database of ground based navaids. They do sensor fusion with GPS, navaids, and INS for navigation. Actual navigation performance is reported as an expected deviation in nautical miles, and is monitored to be less than the required navigation performance for the route.

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Oh yes probably, I'm just saying that GPS isn't the only thing out there and that planes won't fall out of the sky if it gets turned off

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If you ever listen to suspicious observers, the guy was going on recently about magnetic field activity that could cause issues with navigation.

Couple days later boom. All those flights got canceled for "various reasons".

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I own multiple signal jammers(cdma, gsm, bt, wifi, etc) I use them when the scumbag homeless niggers outside are using their obama phones to blast music on their blutooth speakers.

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Jam GPS? Your phone will just fall back to cell towers and WiFi signals to do location. Some even use Bluetooth.

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Faraday bag should take care of that.

https://faradaybag.com/

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My thought as well, why use a complex jammer when you can just isolate the device with a passive shell?

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If you have a modern car it is also tracking you.

Some of these jammers will plug right into your cigarette lighter and also run under battery power so it is still running when parked for brief periods, etc.

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Could probably be done over CAN Bus, you'd need something like an autopi to do it.

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Most cars have CAN Bus come out the OBD-II port. What you can do depends on the widgets hanging off of it. Typically, it's a lot. You can buy an interface for your laptop that will talk on the CAN bus via OBD-II port so you don't have to do any gnarly wiring yourself.

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I've been wanting to play around with the MCP2515, it'll do CAN over SPI, and they're only a few bucks. I've heard you can practically drive the car if it's a recent model.

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You had me at “illegal”.

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My kind of technology

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