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.

https://archive.is/OSx06

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course t-mobile has the shittiest security.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not the only one but I'm just stumped by incompetence here to the point where it almost feels like malice.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Nobody's going to notice. Who would listen in on satellite communication? Nobody would be able to afford the equipment."

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    It wouldn't surprise me if that was the case when the satellite equipment was originally installed. SDRs only became available fairly recently. Before that, you would either have to have the knowledge and ability to build your own equipment or have a lot of money.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    I knew that 20+ years ago. My friend with a dish told me they can download the unencrypted streams of files that other people download, I was pretty shocked and went digging through the files ( Lots of winamp downloads).
    What's surprising is nothing has changed.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Everything old is new again.

    Reminds me of the documentary called Spin from 1995. It was built from behind-the-scenes footage captured from live satellite feeds from the 1992 Presidential election and the 1992 Rodney King LA riots.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I just watched that for the first time a couple weeks ago. Very enlightening. The bits with Larry King were also completely insane. I would love to see the debate he moderated between Clinton and 'Poppy' Bush in an alternate timeline. That could have been pure chaos.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Crazy idea, maybe things should be E2EE? I know, crazy!

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Oh hello the 1980s called and they want their breaking news back.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Still waiting to see the inevitable hack of a communications constellation (starlink and the likes) resulting in worldwide outages and / or a worldwide firework show.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    This is why VPNs.

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