It really is amazing the amount of sat's that transmit in the clear. Some of it was because of processing power limitations or because they are just old enough that it was rare that anyone could really intercept the comms.. Well, we don't live in that era anymore and have not for a long time.
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>With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.
It really is amazing the amount of sat's that transmit in the clear. Some of it was because of processing power limitations or because they are just old enough that it was rare that anyone could really intercept the comms.. Well, we don't live in that era anymore and have not for a long time.
Archive: https://archive.today/g1RBd
From the post:
>>With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.
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