{"id":10181,"date":"2017-10-31T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/cliff-stoll-on-software-snake-oil-and-the-creation-of-real-things\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:59:59","slug":"cliff-stoll-on-software-snake-oil-and-the-creation-of-real-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/cliff-stoll-on-software-snake-oil-and-the-creation-of-real-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Stoll on Software, Snake Oil, and the Creation of Real Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hdsdr_15m.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"597\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hdsdr_15m.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><b>&#8220;I guess today&#8217;s experimenters build things in software, without ever touching a soldering iron. The hocus pocus is inside the program. It&#8217;s cleaner this way &#8212; nothing to burn or zap, and you don&#8217;t need a voltmeter&#8230; What happened to home-brewed and breadboarded circuitry? Where&#8217;s the joy of mechanics and electricity, the creation of real things? Who are the tinkerers with a lust for electronics?&#8221; <\/b><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><b>From &#8220;Silicon Snake Oil&#8221; 1995 by Cliff Stoll <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I guess today&#8217;s experimenters build things in software, without ever touching a soldering iron. The hocus pocus is inside the program. It&#8217;s cleaner this way &#8212; nothing to burn or zap, and you don&#8217;t need a voltmeter&#8230; What happened to home-brewed and breadboarded circuitry? Where&#8217;s the joy of mechanics and electricity, the creation of real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/cliff-stoll-on-software-snake-oil-and-the-creation-of-real-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cliff Stoll on Software, Snake Oil, and the Creation of Real Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}