[PatchworkCasino]

From my experience the tailwatcher and (not) suprisingly related HAM communities are magical in their ability to just trust their community and rarely get burned.

Only 4 active connections allowed per site on a popular HAM webring? Never hogged by bots.

Site that allows minimally authenticated posting of aircraft ACARS messages? Never seen it hijacked for ads.

Physics-limited space for nearly untracable HF radio transmissions that can span half the US? Handfull of trolls that voluntarily relegate themselves to the 'troll freqs'.

It's no surprise the site allows unauthenticated JSON; in the rest of the hobby the FCC makes most types of security outright illegal.

[tjohns]

HF is definitely traceable.

Hams make an entire sport of of this ("fox hunting"), and the FCC has a network of automated monitoring stations dotted across the country specifically to determine the location of rogue radio transmissions.

That said, most of the time it's easier to just ignore the radio trolls.

[jkingsman]

Yeah, but like other things, as long as the trolls stay in their corner, people tend not to bother them because better in a contained spot than anywhere else. Learning 7200kHz (and 14.313) is 4chan radio and to steer clear is a radio rite of passage; I doubt most people would WANT to fox hunt them because then they're gonna leave and potentially settle somewhere more disruptive.

[bigfatkitten]

> FCC has a network of automated monitoring stations dotted across the country specifically to determine the location of rogue radio transmissions.

While they can do this if they choose to do so, nothing at the FCC's Enforcement Bureau has a lower priority than amateur radio and CB.