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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by Maven911 on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:37PM (#18260600)
Try listening to a police scanner on broadcastify. I like the nypd bronx ones, its the sufficient level of quiet dead time with some action too.
Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by TeMPOraL on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:15AM (#18262009)
I tried listening to police bands on actual radio over where I live (in some places they don't encrypt their comms yet). Gave up after hearing way more PII than I was comfortable with.

There's a similar problem with taxi bands, though it's been improving over the years (in particular, the new wave of pay-through-app taxis helping). It used to be that drivers would read full card data aloud to transmit it to the base - in-the-clear.