Same here. Sad, but not surprising. I suspect that the on-line scanners had a contribution to this decision. Take away the on-line aspect, and you had to invest a significant amount of coin in a radio to scan police here.. not something a lot of people were willing to do. Having CREST on-line made comms available to anyone with a smartphone. Combine that with various social media groups sharing scanner info, which is a violation of law... it was only a matter of time. [emoji3525]
Yup. All of that.
In light of what EComm did with NGRP or what ever they are calling WARS 2.0, and that the CREST system shares its system ID with it, but a different zone, I was expecting nothing less than full time encryption for all users. Anyone that though any less was naive or had their head buried in the sand.
Here in Alberta RCMP, all municipal police forces, Alberta Sheriffs, AEMA(Provincial Emergency management)and AHS(Ambulance) are all encrypted on AFRRCS. Only CPO(municipal by-law) Fire and other non law or EMS are unencrypted. Those that are encrypted, are using AES256 as it’s the only algorithm permitted by AFRRCS on their network.
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