‘They just really didn’t think anyone would look up’: Researchers snooped on unencrypted satellite data with basic equipment, finding private calls, text messages, and even military communications
via satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
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A team of researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland have published a study [PDF warning] detailing their attempts to pick up unsecured information from the airwaves using a basic receiver system. Over the course of three years, the team pointed their off-the-shelf residential dish at various geostationary satellites and interpreted the […]