[Scan-DC] Baltimore Police Encryption

[Joel Kahn]

On WMAL as they were covering the Baltimore shooting, they replayed some of the PD transmissions, with a banner crediting Broadcasting as the source.
Yea, Dewey, Lindsey strikes another blow to the hobby.

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  On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 17:35, Steve Slate<restonham at gmail.com> wrote:   No flames from me.  It’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it.
Having worked for DoD, DOJ and other federal agencies on the P25 and IWN programs, I strongly believe all law enforcement communications should be encrypted.  

Steve
N4EUK

> On Jul 3, 2023, at 12:39, Dewey3 <dewey3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is extremely sickening!  Lindsey, via Broadcastify is the reason that
> most of these departments go encrypted in the first place.  I know that
> there are those who will doubt this, but why do so many of the decision
> makers who go encrypted cite "privacy" and "safety" while further saying how
> easy it is for "anyone" with a cell phone to stay a step ahead by listening
> the rebroadcasts.  So thanks to Lindsey:
> 
> - Rebroadcast transmissions are a significant part of the reason for
> encryption in a large number of cases
> - Unproven, but I strongly suspect royalties from Uniden and Whistler for
> use of the freely user provided frequency databases
> - Agreements with agencies who go fully encrypted to broadcast those
> transmissions on a time delayed rebroadcast so it LOOKS LIKE the agencies
> are being transparent
> 
> Did I miss anything?  So yea, Lindsey shares some of the blame for the same
> encryption that agencies turn and around and work with to provide their
> transmissions.  So while Rebroadcastify can try to smell like a rose by
> being the provider of time delayed transmission, it is largely
> Rebroadcastify's "stuff" that those transmissions are encrypted in the first
> place.  Oh yea, and don't even think about discussing encryption over on
> RadioReference, he knows he's the blame.
> 
> Flame on!
> 
> Dewey
> 
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