cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50937678
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.
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.
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.
Super interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Used to be you could buy time on aws’s satellite link and listen there too if you wanna spend less than 800 bucks in equipment.
