WSJ article on encryption

favin · May 17, 2018

Want to listen to police scanners? Cops say no more.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/want-to-listen-to-police-scanners-cops-say-no-more-1526558400

Another article on the law enforcement position to encryption due to people listening via scanners and online apps. Broadcastify is mentioned.

Edit: Paywall from WSJ. flythunderbird has posted a pdf. copy of the article in this thread.
https://forums.radioreference.com/general-scanning-discussion/370519-wsj-article-encryption.html

Moderator, feel free to delete this posting.

flythunderbird · May 17, 2018

From today's Wall Street Journal and posted without comment from me. As WSJ articles eventually go behind a paywall, I snagged a PDF copy to post here. Lindsay is quoted in the article, too.

Unforgiven_AF · May 17, 2018

Stupid paywall.

NYRHKY94 · May 17, 2018

Thank you for sharing. As usual with the vast majority of articles regarding this subject (including this one), there is no mention that the final decision to go with full ENC is actually a "political policy decision" approved by those the police department reports to. While the Chief may be the initial impetus behind the move, the decision to do so ultimately rests with the elected officials he or she rolls up to: City Mayor, Town Council, County Executives etc.

These same elected officials are also "supposed to be" responsible/accountable for maintaining transparency in their government operations. As has been observed over the last several years however, absent any real pressure from their constituents (i.e. taxpayer voters at public meetings etc.) to leave day-to-day comms open.....the switch to full ENC just keeps moving along. On the other hand, at least this article makes mention that there are a number of public safety departments (some quite large in scale) who fully support transparency.

jaspence · May 17, 2018

Scanner listeners

It only takes a few stupid people to ruin things for everyone else. Some departments have tried to compromise and leave the general dispatch open, but glory seekers like the person in the article don't understand the hobby listeners and are only self serving in their listening.

NYRHKY94 · May 17, 2018

Full article shared here: https://forums.radioreference.com/general-scanning-discussion/370519-wsj-article-encryption.html

NC1 · May 17, 2018

Link wants me to subscribe to the newspaper in order to read the article.

I guess that's one I won't be reading.

NC1 · May 17, 2018

Excellent job posting the PDF. Thanks!

iMONITOR · May 17, 2018

It's a good thing that decision is not up to cops to make. :wink:

captainmax1 · May 17, 2018

He probably works for WSJ. LOL

mesocyclone · May 17, 2018

Have FCC rules changed? Back when I got my First Phone License, it legal to monitor radio communications, but illegal to broadcast or disclose the contents of them.

Go-West · May 17, 2018

Thanks. I saw a blurb about it on social media, GAB.AI.

Buttabean · May 17, 2018

Want to Listen to Police Scanners? Cops Say No More

Heres the link to view online, shared by the broadcastify facebook page--> Wall Street Journal

LEH · May 17, 2018

I commented on that article and responded to another person's comment.

Given the policy on RR to not speak negatively on encryption, I'll leave it at that.

mule1075 · May 17, 2018

Really nothing that has not been discussed before.

swatpup102 · May 17, 2018

I have no problem with encryption of swat and special operations traffic, but when departments fully encrypt the only thing I can think of is "what are you hiding." The departments around me haven't gone to this extreme yet, and I hope they never do.

flythunderbird · May 17, 2018

mule1075 said:
Really nothing that has not been discussed before.

That's true. I thought it merited posting because it's not often you see something like this in the WSJ.

mule1075 · May 17, 2018

flythunderbird said:
That's true. I thought it merited posting because it's not often you see something like this in the WSJ.

Absolutely agree the debate is going to continue. If broadcastify did not have the platform someone else would as before it was scan America. Before that people were streaming on live365 or SHOUTcast.

KevinC · May 17, 2018

Merged the two threads discussing this.

CQ · May 17, 2018

It Depends...

mesocyclone said:
Have FCC rules changed? Back when I got my First Phone License, it legal to monitor radio communications, but illegal to broadcast or disclose the contents of them.

Interception and Divulgence of Radio Communications
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/interception-and-divulgence-radio-communications

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