Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver
In my part of the US, I can overhear loads of PII by just tuning my VHF transceiver to various public safety frequencies. I hear drivers license numbers, medical info, all sorts. I hesitate to think that there’s a better alternative though. I’m terrified that the UK is moving to LTE rather than the current trunked radio. The amount of damage caused by comms failing in a major emergency (or even just dead zones) massively outweighs the risk of a little data loss at present. If there are more reliable communication methods that preserve privacy, then we should be using them, but I’m not sure they exist at the moment.<p>edit: to be fair, it should be possible to encrypt some of the traffic, but things should fail open, not closed, or people will die.