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Wonder if they could force this to be unencrypted (I'm assuming it will be) so anyone with a radio could leverage the data somehow

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• SkipperCat 3y ago
  A lot of this traffic is point-to-point, meaning that if you're not in the line of sight, you'd never see the data. So as long as nobody puts up a pirate radio tower, there's not much need for encryption.
  • klez 3y ago
    > So as long as nobody puts up a pirate radio tower, there's not much need for encryption. Maybe I'm over-extrapolating here, but isn't this the same kind of reasoning that gave us MITM-attacks in clear-text http?
    • SkipperCat 3y ago
      I think the difference is that its not very hard to plug a computer into a switch and sniff network traffic. But it is extremely hard to stand up a 300' tower in the middle of a corn field and MITM microwave signals. The chance of anyone pulling that off before being busted is all but nil.
  • BenjiWiebe 3y ago
    Point to point at HF frequencies doesn't really exist. The wavelengths are huge and directionality is poor. I mean, you can set up point to point communications, but people quite a distance away will be able to make it point to multi-point.