• @Rapidcreek
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    439 months ago

    Amazing they haven’t already done this.

    • @jaybone
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      219 months ago

      I thought all PDs in the US had been doing this for decades.

      • @Rapidcreek
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        109 months ago

        After 9/11 there was a government move to centralize communication among first responders. Lots of money allocated for new digital encrypted radio.

        • @jaybone
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          69 months ago

          I thought this went further back to like ~98 and lawsuits around “export grade” encryption and the NSA was partnering with cell phone providers.

          • @Rapidcreek
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            49 months ago

            Rumor Control: there are 5 levels of encryption on a digital GSM over air call. It’s pretty much bullet proof. But, you can trick the phone or like the NSA get the call straight from the switch.

          • littleblue✨
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            49 months ago

            I remember that… Funny how you don’t really hear about that anymore. Hunh.

            • TWeaK
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              79 months ago

              That’s because they’ve relaxed on it a bunch. Also, the stuff they were pushing in the 90s really wasn’t secure.

              There was a Darknet Diaries episode that covered a lot of this, but I can’t remember which one.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      The public record of public servants should not be encrypted in a free nation.

      That includes their speech and actions and the tools they use to disseminate them.

      This isn’t hard.

  • @gdog05
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    379 months ago

    Listen NYPD, do you want Spiderman’s help or not?

  • @Pacmanlives
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    69 months ago

    Denver did this a few years back and it sucks! I am surprised NYPD has not done so already.