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This is a old leak. More interesting is I've yet to read a write up of where the leak came from, the question asked when it came out - https://www.schneier.co

This is a old leak. More interesting is I've yet to read a write up of where the leak came from, the question asked when it came out - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/leaked_911_text.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/leaked_911_te... Is it reasonable (not is it possible) a private citizen was at the time recording all pager traffic? Can you read them passively and is it location based and does this data fit with that? If it's not totally passive, would the network notice you vacuuming them all up?

YuccaGloriosa 6y ago
Yes, It's totally reasonable that someone could have been routinely capturing all the pager data. Normally over a very large service area (possibly nationally) Yes, the data can be captured passively. It's just data (sounds a bit like old fashioned modems ) being broadcast over radio frequency. You just hook up a radio scanner to a pc, and run software to decode the tone, creating a huge text log, that contains all the messages.