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Leak From the Sky: It Turns Out a Lot of Satellite Data Is Unencrypted (www.pcmag.com)
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...the recovered data included user SMS and voice call contents, user internet traffic, and cellular network signaling protocols... the team was able to collect unencrypted satellite data “from sea vessels owned by the US military,” along with traffic from multiple organizations within the Mexican government and military, including personnel records, narcotics activity, and military asset tracking...

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait no actually this could be life saving. Is is capable of picking up all meteorological signals?

I think the lowest bands are 8.3khz. oh WOW we could potentially use it to get Astronomical data too in case the regime cuts us off from that!

9ooooooh boy

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yep. Its part of the hobby. There's a raspberry pi version. Just look up satnogs. Its a website. There's also ARPA, meshtastic/meshcore, and a whole lot of other fun little side projects on communication.

Also there are citizen weather setups. They are not as good as the national weather service, but in places that don't get a lot of coverage (some parts of Wyoming for example) they are great. They don't use SATs but in theory could use that data as well. This is where my knowledge gets murky as I only know about them in passing. There's kits online and on tindie (maker website).