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

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

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.

Satellites are leaking your data worse than coffee shop WiFi: Researchers

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That suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own collection of sensitive information. After all, the researchers restricted their experiment to only off-the-shelf satellite hardware: a $185 satellite dish, a $140 roof mount with a $195 motor, and a $230 tuner card, totaling less than $800. “This was not NSA-level resources. This was DirecTV-user-level resources. The barrier to entry for t…