Back in January, I wrote about how tools can be modified beyond their intended use. Not always with bad intent, but not always with good either. https://intspired.co.uk/blog/f/beyond-the-surface Since then, a few things caught my attention. Unrelated on the surface, but all wireless, all open, and all sitting just outside where most security teams are looking. A general-purpose device transmitting amateur radio Image 1: Amateur Radio Meets General-Purpose Hardware (Flipper Zero APRS setup). As a ham radio user, I came across a GitHub project by Richard YO3GND demonstrating a Flipper Zero transmitting APRS, a protocol typically associated with dedicated amateur radio equipment. It's experimental. Imperfect. Not something you'd stake your comms on. But that's not the point. The point is that a low cost, general-purpose device is now capable of emulating a specialised radio function simply by implementing the protocol in software. The hardware didn't change. The capability did.…