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Re:The forgotten war on beepers by KennyBlanken on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:57PM (#40070959)
"VHF pagers were the last way you could recieve notifications without having to offer up your location to surveillance"

...and instead anyone in your city can read every single text message with a trivial amount of hardware?

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Re:The forgotten war on beepers by oxygen_crisis on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:00PM (#40070982)
There's nothing wrong with open communication when everyone understands that it's open and treats it accordingly.
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Re:The forgotten war on beepers by karma_pharmer on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:42PM (#40072741)
They can read my AES-encrypted ciphertext all day long and I don't care.

You can even buy two-way pagers that transmit with AES-128 encryption. Hospitals have to use this due to HIPAA:

https://www.spok.com/blog/standard-or-encrypted-pagers-whats...

I think you're confusing commercial pager services with Ham radio.

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Re:The forgotten war on beepers by prmoustache on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:27AM (#40073837)
Usually pagers were used to ask people to call back so I don't think that is a big issue. It is like shooting at someone you recognize far away in the street so he can look back and meet you. Everybody will hear that but not the actual content of the conversation afterwards.
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