No pushback from me. I posted my factual experience to counter the mouth-breathers who claim that "the apps are making cops encrypt". No. No, they are not.
If some guy in Chicago is listening to a streaming scanner from Florida, it is highly unlikely he will show up at the scene of a crime or a fire. So the "app" is not contributing to the problem.
Besides, such statements show a complete lack of understanding of the situation. Anybody can buy a scanner to listen to exactly the same channels (and more) that the scanner feed hears, and without the delay imposed by the feed. Ticks are still going to show up at fires and get in the way, but they could just as easily chase the responders to the scene without a scanner. You know, the way they've done it for decades.
I can understand surveillance encrypting. And medcom channels should be encrypted to comply with HIPPA requirements, even though those are the most boring conversations on the scanner. The dispatch channels should be in the clear since that affects everybody equally.
