XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.security, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-21 00:51, c186282 wrote:   
   > https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-sky-full-secrets-glaring-   
   > vulnerabilities.html   
   >   
   > With $800 of off‐the‐shelf equipment and months' worth of patience,   
   > a team of U.S. computer scientists set out to find out how   
   > well geostationary satellite communications are encrypted. And   
   > what they found was shocking.   
   >   
   > Close to half of the communications beamed from satellites to   
   > the ground that the researchers were able to listen in on were   
   > not encrypted. This included sensitive data including cellular   
   > text messages, voice calls,   
      
   SMS were never encrypted. I think voice calls between the towers and the   
   terminals were encrypted (I read somewhere long ago that they used the   
   example configuration for encryption, so the key was known). The   
   communications between the towers and the exchanges were not encrypted,   
   unless radio transmission systems employed some encryption of their own.   
      
   Can't confirm any of this currently, but it was correct around year 2000.   
      
      
      
      
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