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.
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.Of course t-mobile has the shittiest security.
It’s not the only one but I’m just stumped by incompetence here to the point where it almost feels like malice.
“Nobody’s going to notice. Who would listen in on satellite communication? Nobody would be able to afford the equipment.”
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.
Same article was posted yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/37318526
Oops didn’t see it when I looked up before posting
