A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital scanner, $499.99,
will decode any encrypted transmission. I asked what it had that others
didn't and he said "just the way their made".???


"The Orchardist" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:23:53 -0600, "Charles Duncan"
wrote:

If they use encryption you can decode if you find a member of the
department
who is willing to give up the code?

Cops' don't know the code.

It's set by the radio techs with a key loader.

also depends on the system and radio. If you aren't on the "good guy"
list, then your radio won't be recognized by the system and won't
receive decoded messages.

Oh, and not to mention that it's also a FEDERAL FELONY under ECPA.




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Charles Duncan ...

^ A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital
^ scanner, $499.99, will decode any encrypted transmission.

You've been misinformed. A digital receiver will convert (decode) a digital
signal to expose the content, often analog audio. But if the content, perhaps
analog audio, has been encrypted, then you're left something useless to you.

This message will be encoded by my newsreader and encoded further by the
sockets interface, then it will be decoded by any computer receiving it. If I
were to encrypt this message before sending it, perhaps with PGP, it would
still be twice encoded and decoded and you would be left with an encrypted
message that is useless to you.

The receiver you refer to cannot decode all types of digital information and
it cannot decrypt anything.

Frank

Yep, he is a confirmed ****** then. Still, I guess that you cannot expect
the useless brain deads that work in shops like that to know much. It will
allow you to monitor some of the digital signals (but definitely NOT all of
them), however it will not and cannot decode encrypted communications. The
****** seems to be severely confused between digital signals, and
encryption.
Still, what else can you expect I guess - not much chance of trying to
explain the difference to the brain dead, so I guess that you didn't bother
(these days I wouldn't - I have given up)




Matt

"Charles Duncan" wrote in message
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A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital scanner,
$499.99,
will decode any encrypted transmission. I asked what it had that others
didn't and he said "just the way their made".???


"The Orchardist" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:23:53 -0600, "Charles Duncan"
wrote:

If they use encryption you can decode if you find a member of the
department
who is willing to give up the code?

Cops' don't know the code.

It's set by the radio techs with a key loader.

also depends on the system and radio. If you aren't on the "good guy"
list, then your radio won't be recognized by the system and won't
receive decoded messages.

Oh, and not to mention that it's also a FEDERAL FELONY under ECPA.




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A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital scanner,
$499.99,
will decode any encrypted transmission. I asked what it had that others
didn't and he said "just the way their made".???

He's a moron. It's just the way they're made.