A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

Man, her blog is full of awesomeness. All kinds of cool little projects on there.

the coolest bit by far is <i>RDS was decoded from intermodulation distortion in the radio's Line Out audio caused by the stereo demuxer circuitry.</i> :o)

As simple of an operation as this is, I wonder how hard it would be to brute force this without knowing the location. If you assume that the location values must all be within some distance of each other, I suspect you could iterate though all 65k keys fairly quickly and find the tightest group of them and it would likely be the right one. This makes me want to get some kind of thing going to decode them and try it myself.

<a href="http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=64&#38;id=5" rel="nofollow">http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=64&#38;id=5</a> is another hacker going at it as well, from 2007. It includes a little more information about the protocol, but doesn't touch on listening to encrypted versions.

Whew, she is in Finland.<p>In the USA, Carmen Ortiz would be sending in cops to shoot their dog and seize their computer.

Super cool post. I'm glad there are people in the world working on these things, at least in a hobby capacity and sharing with the rest of us. I worry that doing something like this might get one in all kinds of stupid trouble with <i>somebody</i> in a hot minute (especially in the US). Can't say my fears are well-founded, if only so through the various hyped up horror stories you hear about hackers getting in legal trouble for unforeseen reasons.<p>Regardless, I wish her all the best!

No doubt about it, that is awesome. I wish I had the time... correction I probably always have the time, but none of the patience to do something like this alone on the side. I'll definitely bookmark her blog.

I have been in love with her since the modem image. &#60;3

It was funny/sad that people commenting on her blog assumed she was male due to the topic.