Fwd: China Has Hijacked WA8LMF.com !!

[Bill Vodall]

Perhaps now is time to start the move towards a real aprs-is authentication system.  Or just move back to RF..

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From: WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf=aol...@groups.io>
Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 9:51 AM
Subject: [UI-View] China Has Hijacked WA8LMF.com !!
To: Stephen Smith <wa8...@aol.com>

For about a week now, looking up WA8LMF on findu.com or aprs.fi   has yielded a
map showing my location as being in Los Angeles.  (Rather than my current
location in Haslett in central Michigan.)

This is due to the igate  BG0GE-6 in Xi'an China constantly igating a playback
of the APRS Test CD I created over 16 years ago.  This CD was intended for
direct audio playback into TNCs for testing; not for over-the-air transmission.
One of the tracks on the CD is a recording of me, off-the-air, doing a 20-mile
drive test around the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles.

This recording, for reasons unknown, is now being played back constantly into
the APRS Internet System via the
BG0GE-6 igate, constantly over-writing my current position reports from here in
Michigan.


The fake APRS drive test being endlessly repeated on the Internet!

After considerable search, I located an email address for
BG0GE  <bg...@163.com> and sent him an email asking him to please stop this
igating.   I have received no response back.

My website is WA8LMF.net .  Today, I discovered that   WA8LMF.COM  (a domain I
haven't used for many years) is now a Chinese porn site!!

I have now configured a copy of UIview to beacon into the Internet (not over
the air) my current location every 60 seconds.  This includes the comment
"BG0GE-6 Igate In China Disrupting My Posit!" .  Hoping they will get the
message.....


This is wierd !!!


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Stephen H. Smith    wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype:        WA8LMF
EchoLink:  Node #  14400  [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:          http://wa8lmf.net

-- APRS over FLdigi Modes  --
    <http://wa8lmf.net//FLdigiAPRS/index.htm>

60-Meter APRS!   HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating
    <http://wa8lmf.ddns.net:14447/>

Flying Digipeater!
    <http://WA8LMF.net/FlyingDigi>

11 Copies of UIview in Action on One Computer!
Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps
    <http://wa8lmf.net/map>






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[Steve]

I’ve been starting to read about MQTT. 

That is what the Meshtastic people are doing. 

https://www.u-blox.com/en/blogs/insights/mqtt-beginners-guide#mqtt-01

There are open source versions .

Steve N0FPF

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