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"VHF pagers were the last way you could recieve notifications without having to offer up your location to surveillance" ...and instead anyone in your city can
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
"VHF pagers were the last way you could recieve notifications without having to offer up your location to surveillance"
...and instead anyone in your city can read every single text message with a trivial amount of hardware?
- oxygen_crisis 3y agoThere's nothing wrong with open communication when everyone understands that it's open and treats it accordingly.
- karma_pharmer 3y agoThey can read my AES-encrypted ciphertext all day long and I don't care. You can even buy two-way pagers that transmit with AES-128 encryption. Hospitals have to use this due to HIPAA: https://www.spok.com/blog/standard-or-encrypted-pagers-whats-difference-and-which-best-my-hospital/ https://www.spok.com/blog/standard-or-encrypted-pagers-whats... I think you're confusing commercial pager services with Ham radio.
- prmoustache 3y agoUsually pagers were used to ask people to call back so I don't think that is a big issue. It is like shooting at someone you recognize far away in the street so he can look back and meet you. Everybody will hear that but not the actual content of the conversation afterwards.