Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 19 days ago

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

https://archive.ph/20251014030147/https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf

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