I think that we've seen a good deal of news lately about satellite traffic and how there is a good deal of it that is unencrypted

https://www.pcmag.com/news/leak-from-the-sky-it-turns-out-a-lot-of-satellite-data-is-unencrypted

And then there was news of Scott Tilley in British Columbia, Canada who discovered that there were some satellites in a classified network that were sending data in the wrong direction

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal

He has some incredible documentation on what he captured, and how he captured it using fairly common equipment that most geeky-type-folks would have lying around our labs.

https://zenodo.org/records/17373141

I was able to replicate his setup and started capturing data just to see what I could find. I have to say that I was taken aback from the sort of thing that I was able to grab - again - completely unencrypted.

#sattelites #DataEncryption #Signal #SBand #SBandEmissions #YouKnowTheRules

I think that we've seen a good deal of news lately about satellite traffic and how there is a good deal of it that is unencrypted

https://www.pcmag.com/news/leak-from-the-sky-it-turns-out-a-lot-of-satellite-data-is-unencrypted

And then there was news of Scott Tilley in British Columbia, Canada who discovered that there were some satellites in a classified network that were sending data in the wrong direction

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal

He has some incredible documentation on what he captured, and how he captured it using fairly common equipment that most geeky-type-folks would have lying around our labs.

https://zenodo.org/records/17373141

I was able to replicate his setup and started capturing data just to see what I could find. I have to say that I was taken aback from the sort of thing that I was able to grab - again - completely unencrypted.

#sattelites #DataEncryption #Signal #SBand #SBandEmissions #YouKnowTheRules