PhotoGuy.... July 1st as the day/date that encryption starts for Balt City ?
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Baltimore City Police Encrypted soon
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PhotoGuy.... July 1st as the day/date that encryption starts for Balt City ?
Thanks
We'll know for sure in two days. Things like this generally happen at 7am. The optimist in me wants to point out that people stated that the police in Montgomery County and the Sheriff in Calvert County were planning to enable 100% encryption when their new systems came online, but that didn't happen (yet.). Perhaps the public demand for police accountability played a role, who knows. The new Commish in the city seems to really want it, which is a bad sign. Even if he gets fired (commissioners don't last very long in Baltimore City,) once the encryption switch is thrown, it is rarely reversed.
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baybum
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Not to hijack, but if he gets fired, he still gets full salary for the remainder of his contract. So why should he care? Great gig if you can get it.
OK, sorry for the hijack.
OK, sorry for the hijack.
Interesting article on Motherboard: Citizen App Says It Will Get Access to Encrypted (Baltimore) Police Comms
Yea, so that Citizen app outsources its transcription service to non-native speakers in Nepal, then those transcribers cannot interpret what is real, and what is a training exercise. Perfect.
Just heard the call go out, deployment of new radios has been postponed...15:14 if anyone is using a recorder or SDRTrunk or similar...
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Thanks for the update!!
patrolman123
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Just received word (from a very reliable source) this morning that Baltimore City plans to make the switch to encryption on August 1st. As in previous dates that have come and gone we shall see if this August 1st date holds true. Stay tuned August 1st....
Still unencrypted...
Weirdly, for some reason, TGs that were previously encrypted are coming through in the clear. The last few days I've been hearing detectives, executive protection, etc.
Possibly an intermediate step... Rekeying seems likely, and / or a change in encryption protocol. Anyone know if BPD was using ADP or an older AES flavor previously?
Also, anyone within range running control channel monitoring software like Unitrunker2? You can watch to see if any of the system channels is being used to reprogram / rekey radios - It would show data calls. Another way is to use a spectrum monitoring software like SDR# to watch if any of the city's assigned channels show constant transmission (not including the current control channel.)
OTAP and OTAR? On the City's budget and management structure? If yall see it, I'll eat my hat.
jimmie13
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Wow
georgesharpe
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Is fire enc. too?
