Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.security,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Checked - LOTS Of Stuff Sent Thru Sats UNencrypted - Inc Mil/Banking Data Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:42:35 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net cWupenVJAGUyvofqPFRWsgrBF8xYlMyQTRnCBvww4SGlFgaIYL X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:1xnjgqaSJvJeBLamq4CaiWXdwwQ= sha256:IdS7H3NV5DQ3gAktLU0IK+tdVqamhbG20ys6FQ92PHQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com talk.politics.misc:1209284 alt.security:1356 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:3009598 comp.os.linux.misc:81445 On 2026-01-21 00:51, c186282 wrote: > https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-sky-full-secrets-glaring- > vulnerabilities.html > > With $800 of off‐the‐shelf equipment and months' worth of patience, > a team of U.S. computer scientists set out to find out how > well geostationary satellite communications are encrypted. And > what they found was shocking. > > Close to half of the communications beamed from satellites to > the ground that the researchers were able to listen in on were > not encrypted. This included sensitive data including cellular > text messages, voice calls, SMS were never encrypted. I think voice calls between the towers and the terminals were encrypted (I read somewhere long ago that they used the example configuration for encryption, so the key was known). The communications between the towers and the exchanges were not encrypted, unless radio transmission systems employed some encryption of their own. Can't confirm any of this currently, but it was correct around year 2000. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;