NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.world – 214 points –
NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications
theguardian.com
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Amazing they haven't already done this.

I thought all PDs in the US had been doing this for decades.

After 9/11 there was a government move to centralize communication among first responders. Lots of money allocated for new digital encrypted radio.

I thought this went further back to like ~98 and lawsuits around “export grade” encryption and the NSA was partnering with cell phone providers.

I remember that... Funny how you don't really hear about that anymore. Hunh.

That's because they've relaxed on it a bunch. Also, the stuff they were pushing in the 90s really wasn't secure.

There was a Darknet Diaries episode that covered a lot of this, but I can't remember which one.

Rumor Control: there are 5 levels of encryption on a digital GSM over air call. It's pretty much bullet proof. But, you can trick the phone or like the NSA get the call straight from the switch.

The public record of public servants should not be encrypted in a free nation.

That includes their speech and actions and the tools they use to disseminate them.

This isn't hard.

Denver did this a few years back and it sucks! I am surprised NYPD has not done so already.