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Wouldn’t intentional interference be very illegal to do at random? Sure, hard to get caught but isn’t it illegal?

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Jamming is very illegal in the US at least. https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

Now might be the time to do it though, maybe everyone at the fcc will be fired before your caught.

If you’ve got bored hams around, they’ll catch you.

I doubt the FCC will be disbanded in a way that prevents any enforcement of anti-jamming rules. But the only thing local hamsters would do is report you to the FCC, so if it were dissolved as GP posits, it wouldn't matter which hams find you.

Drones are used in active warfare as we speak, legality in civil use is pretty irrelevant in that context.

So you’re clarifying that for 0.1% of HN the legality is not an issue as if those in war zones were wondering?

Do we discuss only legal things on the website _Hacker_ News?

I feel like I should have the right to block someone trying to use a drone to look inside of my windows.

I know a guy (Australia) who does this regularly. If a drone flys over his back yard he activates his jammer and the thing makes a controlled vertical descent to his lawn.

100% of the time its neighbourhood kids trying out their toy, and they need to come beg for it back. Then he has the chat about privacy etc etc.

The jammer itself came from Alibaba I think.

Nobody is doing that.

But the legal way to do that is by closing your blinds.

Very illegal here in Australia. I believe even possession is illegal. Technically even our SDRs need to be below some power threshold, though most probably don't conform.

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