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19 Aug 2026 4 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
Understanding how a shielded box would change how we think about RF security. As you read this, what is broadcasting in the room around you? You probably have a phone, a wristwatch, maybe some wireless headphones, perhaps. In a digital world, it’s no...
11 Aug 2026 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
What The Tech?! has always aimed to cover the most interesting parts of the technological evolution. While plenty of technology has helped to shape the modern world, some stories are more interesting than others, and today certainly meets that brief....
3 Aug 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
Every day, twice a day, weather balloons take a cheap radio payload aloft and send telemetry back to ground stations, helping us to understand and predict weather cycles. These systems operate far overhead, often reaching 30km or more in altitude.Onc...
29 Jul 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
If you’ve worked through The Tripwire article, you should, by now, have done the audit. You know what comes back when someone Googles your name, which data broker sites have built a profile on you, and roughly what your digital footprint looks like f...
26 Jul 2026 7 minute read 4 comments Investigator515
SS7 is a 50-year-old protocol that routes every mobile on the planet.After decades of mobile phone development and plenty of money spent on the tech, you’d think that if we didn’t have this whole security thing sorted out yet, we must be getting pret...
14 Jul 2026 5 minute read 4 comments Investigator515
In a pre-fibre world, modems would do most of the heavy lifting. No Paywall, No Problem, Read on Substack. In a world with silent, solid-state drives, high-performance CPUs and high-speed broadband, the ’90s-era modem looks positively ancient by mode...
10 Jul 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Anniversaries are usually the company’s party. This one is all yours. Join the party by checking out the anniversary page. Twelve years is a long time in technology. Entire projects can come to life, go obsolete, then wither and die. Some workhorses...
28 Jun 2026 7 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
Just a few decades ago, the idea of a virus being deployed to combat nuclear weapons proliferation would be unheard of. Stuxnet didn’t just damage Iranian centrifuges. It changed what warfare means. Here’s what it actually did, how it worked, and why...
20 Jun 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
Passive, low-effort tools for keeping track of your own digital footprint before someone else does. At some point, someone is going to Google your name. It might be a recruiter reviewing your application, a client checking you out before a call, or m...
19 Jun 2026 5 minute read 5 comments Investigator515
Before the evolution of the mobile phone, the pager was king. With the smartphone being an all-in-one device, it can often be difficult to picture how things worked before the internet was everywhere. And, rather than having an all-in-one device, soc...
