Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data (www.wired.com)
from drmoose@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 04:19
https://lemmy.world/post/37366848

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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YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz on 15 Oct 04:29 next collapse

Of course t-mobile has the shittiest security.

drmoose@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 05:08 collapse

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

squaresinger@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 05:29 collapse

“Nobody’s going to notice. Who would listen in on satellite communication? Nobody would be able to afford the equipment.”

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Oct 05:44 collapse

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.

jesta@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 05:47 next collapse

Same article was posted yesterday: lemmy.world/post/37318526

drmoose@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 07:44 collapse

Oops didn’t see it when I looked up before posting

sommerset@thelemmy.club on 16 Oct 07:49 collapse

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.