T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US

Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by EvanAnderson on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:03PM (#23533586)

I'm curious how many other people share my ambivalence toward amateur radio? I want to be interested in it, but since encryption is forbidden I can't think of very many things I'd really want to use it for, what w/ being unable to trust the authenticity of transmissions and having no confidentiality.

I enjoy listening to stuff w/ my RTL-SDR rig. I also find the emergency communication capability that radio amateurs provide a Good Thing(tm). I just can't see what, personally, it could possibly be useful for.

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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by bluGill on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:28PM (#23534273)

Talking about what gear you each have. There is a reason that is most of the conversations on amature radio : it is the only thing that you can safely talk to strangers about.

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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by Jach on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:29PM (#23534285)

Some of us appeared in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20335110

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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by xxpor on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:57PM (#23534463)

You can sign stuff just fine. Authentication != encryption.

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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by EvanAnderson on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:14PM (#23534949)

The last that I'd explored amateur radio I thought digital signatures were still a grey area. Good to know they're not. That does increase the usefulness dramatically.

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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by xxpor on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:29PM (#23535392)

No, not at all. The only thing that's prohibited is encoding your message as to obscure its meaning.

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