Im a student currently enrolled in school and recently was tasked with creating a magazine about a cause and chose law-enforcement radio encryption. Just wanted your guy’s opinion, its not the best thing ever but its something.
Just a little something I made
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Nice job, keep up the fight!
You need to put the text through a grammar check of some sort. I noticed a few obvious errors.
Look for my PM!
You could also mention in your reporting that perhaps that soccer mom attending the game this Saturday could assist in an ATL BOLO if she were to listen to the broadcast on their way to the game on her new portable SDS100 and ask the other kids a few questions, maybe they go to school together and this would assist PD in finding the run away, etc. Or what about their dad a volunteer FF who now is not able to listen to perhaps the department over in event of a large fire or MCI Event where he would be better suited and prepared if knowing ahead of time he would most likely need to be in a more ready state to respond to a move up or mutual aid to that department, or perhaps the neighborhood safety patrol now locked out from listening due to encryption that would have no idea that the car they've passed twice on the block down the street was possible involved in an earlier home invasion, but now with Encryption you start taking away the chances to monitor and work together as a team. These could easily be some real-world use cases.
You said in the PDF that ADP is 12 bit. It's actually 40 bit - or a littler over 1.1 trillion keys... 2^40
I thought of this while I was just a kid getting into radio while lying in bed one night... I'm an inventor and often times the things I think of someone else has already beat me to it. Another idea I have is using quantum entanglement communications... And believe me, if I can think it, so has someone else.
I thought of this while I was just a kid getting into radio while lying in bed one night... I'm an inventor and often times the things I think of someone else has already beat me to it. Another idea I have is using quantum entanglement communications... And believe me, if I can think it, so has someone else.
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If you haven't already wrapped it up, here are a few thoughts to consider -
1. Cite the origin/law that created the encryption chaos to begin with (sorry I don't have it in front of me). As you state, it is intended to protect private information, for which there are many alternatives. The main point is, Police Chiefs and other agency executives are bending the law in order to get a new radio system funded, which is fully encrypted.
2. Some systems, like the one in installed in my area a couple of years ago, can be switched by the dispatcher to analog at the push of a button, or vice versa. So all day long they can be analog, but could simply push the encrypt button for private info.
3. Many agencies send private info to the patrol officer MDT, encryption isn't needed 80 percent of the time.
4. You kind of already say it, but to be clear, if most agencies (federal, state and local) are encrypted, then who will be the watchdog?
5. Remember the lesson learned from 9/11? Encryption by mulitple agencies could have the same consequences, they will not be able to talk to one another under dire circumstances.
Good work !
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