▲ 841 ▼ Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027 (www.yahoo.com) submitted 6 months ago by ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world 368 comments fedilink hide all child comments I can't. I just can't.
[–] plz1@lemmy.world 69 points 6 months ago (3 children) Bold of you to assume any of this will be encrypted. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 6 months ago (1 child) I remember when we discovered that militants in Afghanistan were monitoring Predator video feeds because apparently nobody had ever put in a requirement that the video stream be encrypted. https://www.networkworld.com/article/769321/insurgents-intercept-video-feeds-from-u-s-drones-using-26-software-report-says.html Militants in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from unmanned U.S. Predator drones using $26 off the shelf software made by a Russian company, says a report in the Wall Street Journal. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] elephantium@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed. Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago SSH keys for remote access. Local storage encryption would be pointless because the keys would be local as well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 6 months ago (1 child) I remember when we discovered that militants in Afghanistan were monitoring Predator video feeds because apparently nobody had ever put in a requirement that the video stream be encrypted. https://www.networkworld.com/article/769321/insurgents-intercept-video-feeds-from-u-s-drones-using-26-software-report-says.html Militants in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from unmanned U.S. Predator drones using $26 off the shelf software made by a Russian company, says a report in the Wall Street Journal. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] elephantium@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed. Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed. Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago SSH keys for remote access. Local storage encryption would be pointless because the keys would be local as well. permalink fedilink source parent