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Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/738201

Different source: https://restoreprivacy.com/comms-standard-used-in-police-and-army-radios-contains-backdoor/

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I mostly agree, but I can also envision a situation in which you don't want the people that you're doing recognizance on covering up their illicit activities because they're listening to the police radio. A good compromise would be to record the encrypted traffic and make it public some arbitrary but fair length of time after the fact.