Oh NO-O-O

[RickS31]

It starts now. I've had a ball monitoring the Sheriff's listing for the MCS (Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna) drug task force and their surveillance activities. I've kept silent about it as I'm sure most of you have. Tonight it appears they've all gone fully encrypted. These are TGIDs 30434 and 30521. Not saying I blame them due to the sensitive nature of what they do but hope it's not a sign of things to come. I sure hate the thought of turning my expensive scanner into a paper weight down the pike.

Oh well.

Rick

 

[procopper7005]

It starts now. I've had a ball monitoring the Sheriff's listing for the MCS (Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna) drug task force and their surveillance activities. I've kept silent about it as I'm sure most of you have. Tonight it appears they've all gone fully encrypted. These are TGIDs 30434 and 30521. Not saying I blame them due to the sensitive nature of what they do but hope it's not a sign of things to come. I sure hate the thought of turning my expensive scanner into a paper weight down the pike.

Oh well.

Rick

Haha, yup welcome to your future. When you have billionaire drug cartels using Atlanta as their eastern hub and who have their own counter intelligence you can imagine why both local and federal drug investigators dont want people to listen to them.

 

[RickS31]

Actually not too upset by this because I totally agree with you on not helping the scum keep making their millions at the expense of everything else. Though, just to be honest, so little is actually passed over these channels that you would be hard pressed, as one of these scum bags, to get much avoidance intel out of it.

I'm just worried that all PS, at least law enforcement general comm, would encrypt just for drill. There you definitely really couldn't glean any real compromising info from them. In addition, I use it to just stay tuned to potential trouble spots and, if it's in my area, to keep an extra set of eyes if needed.

I suspect the law enforcement agencies don't take that potential into account when they decide to just willy-nilly encrypt the world. I'm sure there's a lot more of us benign listeners than any real scum that want to bypass any laws.

Oh well.

Rick

 

[procopper7005]

I think we all know this is coming down the pipe eventually. The feds have encrypted nearly all of their operations, Gwinnett has gone fully encrypted except FD dispatch. There are several systems around the US that are totally encrypted.