[TrunkCom] Radio Scanner Virus

[Tom Swisher]

JERRY NONE wrote:

> Since cell phones can get viruses from what I read,
> can radio scanners get viruses too since the Control
> DATA tells the scanner what frequency to go to
> couldn't it intentionally tell radio scanners to go
> to the wrong frequency and or LCN?

No.

One can encrypt or otherwise intentionally obfuscate the control channel 
  so that only select radios can use it, but telling radios to go to the 
wrong channel would tell all radios to go to the wrong channel, system 
users included. Remember, scanners monitor the same data stream as 
commercial trunking radios.

Tom WA8PYR
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