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Leak From the Sky: It Turns Out a Lot of Satellite Data Is Unencrypted (www.pcmag.com)
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...the recovered data included user SMS and voice call contents, user internet traffic, and cellular network signaling protocols... the team was able to collect unencrypted satellite data “from sea vessels owned by the US military,” along with traffic from multiple organizations within the Mexican government and military, including personnel records, narcotics activity, and military asset tracking...

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. Everybody already knows this but also it's fine because it's mostly just weather satellites. It's not as if spice satellites are unencrypted.

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

spice satellites

The spice must flow.