[Scan-DC] The Washington Post: District fire departmentconsidering encrypting scanner communications

[Alan Henney]

I think the target here IS the media.

The scanner community has become collateral damage.

The mistake the D.C. media made when MPD encrypted was to wait until after 
it happened to get upset.  That was too late.  The mighty Washington press 
corps is no longer mighty.  They don't even seem to care much since 
everybody will be in the same boat relying on same twitter feeds, etc. 
Maybe they can even remove those pesky scanners from the assignment desks?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Clegg" <aclegg at nsf.gov>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Fw: The Washington Post: District fire 
departmentconsidering encrypting scanner communications


Also, a common solution is to give the media portables that can decrypt the 
communications. That doesn't help the other 99.999% of us.