[Scan-DC] Baltimore Police Encryption

[Steve Slate]

And you are entitled to your opinion.  Not everyone needs to know everything the moment it happens.

Steve


> On Jul 4, 2023, at 20:24, Lee Williams <leonzo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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!
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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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-----
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>>> 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
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