Walk into the city desk of any major newspaper and a police scanner is on in the background. It isn't a "geeky" thing at all. Informants have nothing to do wit

Walk into the city desk of any major newspaper and a police scanner is on in the background. It isn't a "geeky" thing at all. Informants have nothing to do with secure comms... the examples of reasons why secure comms are needed usually center around surveillance of organized crime for since 2001, the terrorists. Is there a need for secure transmission of limited types of communication? Sure. But 95% of the radio traffic is not secret at all.