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Origin of Wireless Security: the Marconi Radio Hack of 1903

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Nevil Maskelyne: The world's first electronic communications troll.

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Fun to read a security hacking story from 1903

That was a very interesting story!

There was a court case in the US where Marconi's essential patents on radio transmission were refuted as everything in them were already patented by Tesla.

Marconi was a student and assistant of Tesla for a time and decided to steal his work and go into business for himself.

Unfortunately this is not widely understood and Marconi is still widely thought to have invented radio when in fact it was Tesla.

> Marconi was a student and assistant of Tesla

I doubt this very much. Can you give a reference please?

"Nikola Tesla: The Guy Who DIDN'T "Invent Radio"" http://earlyradiohistory.us/tesla.htm

Tesla also invented teleportation and matter cloning if you believe The Prestige.

Oh, I love those discussions on who invented what. For example, even a Brazilian Priest might have invented it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landell_de_Moura

The story of Landell_de_Moura is indeed fascinating. Unfortunately there so many technical errors in the reports that they have to be discounted. It is probable that his wireless claims actually refer to light-beam communications..

If any one was first, it had to be David Edward Hughes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edward_Hughes

Luckily a lot of new material has surfaced recently, including his original notes and apparatus.

If this would be /pol/ would I be seeing a Serbian flag? ;)

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4408090/Tes...

http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

A bunch of flags, all claiming Tesla for themselves

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