The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communications — reversing a near-century-old practice of allowing the public and the press to listen to police dispatches.

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  • TomMasz@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I assume this means encrypted P25 . Public service agencies have been using it for years, though not all of them encrypt.

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      11 months ago

      And it’s easily decoded when you have the keys which, based on every other department that uses them, won’t take long to leak or be cracked.Lot of folks use SDR setups on a PC to decrypt and stream police and fire radio to a service like Broadcastify