NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian
NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian
Critics say encryption is an ‘attack on transparency’, and that radio monitoring is one of the few ways to keep track of the police
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They actually need to focus on hospital communications. It's scary what all you can pick up from paging systems in cleartext with a $20 USB SDR and a laptop. Patient names, rooms numbers, alert codes, everything.
I worked in a hospital, and patient names should never be paged. Room numbers and alert codes are not PHI, and generally they would say "Adult Male blah blah blah...". Unfortunately, in concrete mazes, paging is still the most reliable (as seen by how easy it is for others to see). And when you're as important as a doctor, you need reliability.
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