Wow, are we sure this article wasn't written in 1980? The idea that encrypted radio is a national security threat makes zero sense in the age of VPNs and Tor.

Wow, are we sure this article wasn't written in 1980? The idea that encrypted radio is a national security threat makes zero sense in the age of VPNs and Tor. If someone wants to get a secret message overseas an encrypted HAM transmission is probably the single hardest way to do that short of trying to train a carrier pigeon with a portrait of Vladimir Putin.