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.
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 · 13 pts · 321d
Of course t-mobile has the shittiest security.
drmoose@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 321d
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 · 11 pts · 321d
"Nobody's going to notice. Who would listen in on satellite communication? Nobody would be able to afford the equipment."
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 321d
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 · 3 pts · 321d
Same article was posted yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/37318526
drmoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 321d
Oops didn't see it when I looked up before posting
sommerset@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 320d
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.