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   by f-- 6y ago

   I think I addressed your second point above; for the first one, I think the ham community is largely gone at this point. As you note, there are something like 700,000 licensed people in the US, but if you tune in to your local repeater and
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   by f-- 6y ago

   I hear this argument a lot, but it feels like a weird back-justification for the restrictions imposed by the government. Yes, encryption would make some enforcement actions slightly harder, but we tolerate it in plenty of other settings whe
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   by f-- 6y ago

   Yeah, usually. It's a common trope, but also a pretty tired one. We have a pretty long history of plague, famine, war, and other "apocalyptic" scenarios, and in almost all accounts, people tend to help each other, and most wo