[TrunkCom] Radio Scanner Virus

[Jeff Kenyon]

Hi Tom and the group, this thread is on another list too, and I am
thinking that some scanner files like ones for the Pro-96 or other PC
interfaced scanners could get viruses.  I never heard of cell phones
getting viruses though.





On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Tom Swisher wrote:

> 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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