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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data (www.wired.com)
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https://archive.md/QMvAI

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.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I should've been more clear, I didn't mean the data, but at the protocol level it's all open.

Same with the Internet traffic through these satellites.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, some parts of the protocols we use for the Internet need to be in the clear to work, DNS comes to mind. If you want that kept private as well you need to use something like tor.

    But regardless, what people generally actually care about keeping secret is the content, not the protocol.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I mean, some parts of the protocols we use for the Internet need to be in the clear to work, DNS comes to mind. If you want that kept private as well you need to use something like tor.

    Not really. We also have DNS over HTTPs, DNS over TLS, and DNSCrypt which are all becoming more popular. But that's still application level data that I'm not really talking about.

    But regardless, what people generally actually care about keeping secret is the content, not the protocol.

    A lot of information can be gleaned from protocol metadata though. Source, destination, which applications are being used, maybe more depending on protocols. Not exactly information I want to be easily available to the public, but also not exactly critical either.

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