…the recovered data included user SMS and voice call contents, user internet traffic, and cellular network signaling protocols… the team was able to collect unencrypted satellite data “from sea vessels owned by the US military,” along with traffic from multiple organizations within the Mexican government and military, including personnel records, narcotics activity, and military asset tracking…
Yes, we have stuff like HTTPS nowadays, but I think that given a certain importance of an application, transfered data should be encrypted on the application level as well.
https doesn’t hide metadata!
So, they only encrypted what was being intercepted by the masses, that is, TV? Sounds right.
I suppose there are people around the world who still have one of those big dishes in their backyard and are listening in on everything.
Shoutout Save It For Parts on Youtube who has been decoding all sorts of satellite data for years.
