[Scan-DC] Baltimore Police Encryption

[Lee Williams]

And if I lived in Russia, China or North Korea I would believe that to! But after a 40 year career in law enforcement and being born  in the USA I couldn’t disagree with you more!


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> On Jul 4, 2023, at 23:08, Joel Kahn <jrkahn at att.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
>> Behalf Of Alan Henney
>> Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 13:13
>> To: Scan DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [Scan-DC] Baltimore Police Encryption
>>
>> https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/baltimore-poli
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