Police Are Increasingly Encrypting Their Radios to Block Scrutiny by Journalists
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Press advocates say that the surge in encryption is a reaction to the demand for police accountability after 2020.

Press advocates say that the surge in encryption is a reaction to the demand for police accountability after 2020.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    This was something Nextel’s PTT was great for. Could setup various PTT groups and communicate broadly with everyone in the group regardless of location in the country even. And since it used very small slivers of 800MHz spectrum, the signal travelled damned far. Could even work directly between devices without the network of necessary.

    One of the major reasons many emergency response teams had Nextel devices in their initial response kite.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      Man I remember me and my friends using PTT like crazy. It was fun and kept us close knit. I could really see it being useful in a business setting.