John Smith wrote:
Are you joking man?
I wish I was
But nothing that a hare brained sheme could say they might do will be
granted now
Why would terrorists use radio, even with the narrowest directive antennas and
broadcast to who-knows-who?
Is it? After all the FCC can't seem to find the folks breaking the
rules now
and doing something that looks stupid is a classic in threat analisys
work
Good examples of it are in "the longest day" a german general was
pointing out how silly his plan for wining a wargame was Normandy bad
wether and low tide, which turned out to be what the Allies did
Using radio would be a soft target approuch
The FCC thinks them too ignorant to figure out the internet is a much better
vector?
I suspect there is much more on Al Jazerras' website than meets the eye... but,
who knows?
Only Al quaeda knows for sure, if even they do
John
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John Smith wrote:
Anyone aware of any court challenges to the FCC banning the use of "codes"
(encryption/decryption) on radio.
No I am not
It seems insane that encrypted data is exchanged freely on the internet and
yet
regulations prevent its use on amateur radio, how such can be prevented on
one
specific form of communications seems insane.
As I understand the matter it comes in part from concerns that Spies
would use Ham radio to do thier deeds
Today with al queada I can't see the FCC budging on this one
Very sophisticated means are even used to embed text/voice data in video and
binary pictures which is virtually impossible to detect/decrypt with the
even
the fastest computers--within practical time periods (like millions of
years--let alone lifetimes.)
I have heard of this never studied it could something like that be used
to embed same in something like SSTV
John
OTOH Your mention PGP I suppose based on the discusions of the USE of
PSK 31 and other modes you could argue the use PGP would be legal is
the non encoded parts of the tranmision in addition to your Call sign
contained the addresses where both of the keys could be found. The
addresses would have to be acesable over say the internet but it should
be legal
Alothough the FCC is liable to try to make a fight of it, one that
isn't worth it to me at anyrate
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