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Protesters against the ongoing war in Ukraine appear to be literally “trolling” the Russian military by broadcasting pictures of troll faces on their radio stations.
Footage shared by the two a Reddit user and Twitter page about Anonymous shows the troll’s face appearing on a radio broadcast, with a broad smile, seemingly designed to mock those who try to use the radio for more serious communications.
It is not clear who exactly is behind the creation, but it was first published on YouTube page North Royalton yesterday, March 6, as Russia the second week of the invasion of Ukraine continues.
Check it out below:
The video has garnered thousands of views YouTube in the hours after its publication, while over on Reddit received praise from one user who replied: “Troll level: Maximum.”
In response to another Redditor who asked what methods North Royalton used to “read the ether or whatever”, the YouTuber told them “Google kiwi sdr [sic]’.
KiwiSDR is offered as an app that “provides access to the broadband shortwave radio map,” suggesting that the YouTuber used the software to capture and share the message sent by the trolls. They also provided internet users with the radio frequency on which the show was broadcast, writing on YouTube: “4625 kHz is the frequency the buzzer is broadcasting on.”
Another Redditor who goes by u/myselfelsewhere explained that SDR is “capable of broadcasting signals at almost any wavelength” and that it offers “the ability to control the broadcast frequency via software.”
The rest of the world saw protests in widespread support for Ukraine. (Images)
They continued: “The video shows a waterfall graph where the horizontal axis is the radio frequency. The vertical axis is time, where the older data is at the bottom and the newest data is at the top. The color depicts the signal strength at the frequency and time points on the chart.
“If someone was broadcasting troll faces on the same frequency as your wireless router, it has the same effect as noise. It may interfere with the communication between your device and router. With strong enough interference, the devices will no longer be able to communicate,” they continued.
The Redditor added that while “a few troll faces here and there wouldn’t cause that much disruption,” they could be enough to slow down data transfers.
The person or people behind the faces on the radio are not the only ones sabotaging Russia through the media, as Anonymous themselves also claim to have hacked Russian state television to share footage of the conflict unfolding in Ukraine.
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Topics: Russia, Ukraine, technology, Reddit
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