• @[email protected]
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    611 months ago

    And? Do you think he heard about it from a police radio, and not literally every news outlet that was covering it at the time?

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      11 months ago

      You must know that unencrypted police radios have been a upstream source for local media for a long time, right?

      And I’m not arguing that encryption is a good idea, in fact I think a blanket encryption of emergency radio is a bad idea (but nuance on social media is invisible).

      This thread is simply in answer to an earlier poster who asked for a situation where it could be helpful to protect a sensitive situation and I provided one that we have seen analogs of in real life.

      • Cethin
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        311 months ago

        Sure, they get some information from radios. They also usually have at least one person at the headquarters at all times. They will know about big events regardless.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          I forgot that police have no filters or power in person to be more private in discussions about sensitive topics just because there’s a person at their precinct. All conversations happen wide open just like you get with a police-band scanner. 🤦🏻‍♂️