Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian

• JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We had a kid cross state lines to show up to a riot with a gun to defend property and shoot people. Just because you haven’t heard about it doesn’t mean it’s not plausible which is what I said.

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  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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    • JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨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).

      But an earlier poster 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.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plausible, but is it likely? Enough to be even remotely worth it...?

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