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Marconi Radio Hack of 1903

Richard Baguley writes on Hackaday about the origin of wireless
security, the Marconi Radio Hack of 1903

The place is the historic lecture theater of the Royal Institution in
London. The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo
Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system, which he
claims can securely send messages over a long distance, without
interference by tuning the signal.

The inventor himself was over 300 miles away in Cornwall, preparing to
send the messages to his colleague Professor Fleming in the theater.
Towards the end of Professor Flemings lecture, the receiver sparks
into life, and the Morse code printer started printing out one word
repeatedly: “Rats”. It then spelled out an insulting limerick: “There
was a young man from Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily”.
Marconi’s supposedly secure system had been hacked.

Read the Hackaday article at
https://hackaday.com/2017/03/02/great-hacks-of-history-the-marconi-radio-hack-1903/