The public and news reporters will no longer be able to listen in.

The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communications — reversing a near-century-old practice of allowing the public and the press to listen to police dispatches.

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  • nova_ad_vitum
    52·
    7 months ago

    This stuff isn’t hard.

    You want to know how I know you’ve never built anything of this scale before?

    • constantokra@lemmy.one
      52·
      7 months ago

      Amateur radio operators, like myself, do this stuff all the time. There are already open source apps that do exactly what I mentioned, with the exception of encrypting the data, because that’s not allowed in the amateur radio service.

      How exactly is any of what I said too hard for a 350 million dollar budget? Or do I have to personally design and implement a perfect solution for an.entire municipality to be able to even comment on a subject I know a good deal about? But yeah, go ahead thinking it’s level of difficulty standing in the way of a reasonable solution instead of a desire for even less accountability.

      • nova_ad_vitum
        21·
        7 months ago

        Amateur radio operators, like myself, do this stuff all the time.

        No they don’t. Unless you want to tell me how amateur radio operations routinely operate a large scale critical system with inventory management, tech support , redundancy, and a myriad of other shit that hobbyists don’t have to care about.

        There are already open source apps that do exactly what I mentioned,

        Which doesn’t come close to implementing the same capabilities as the system in question, nor does it operate within the same constraints. All you saw was the word “radio” and assumed your hobby makes you an expert.

        How exactly is any of what I said too hard for a 350 million dollar budget?

        It’s not, they’re doing aren’t they?

        Or do I have to personally design and implement a perfect solution for an.entire municipality to be able to even comment on a subject I know a good deal about?

        You can comment on anything you want with any level of knowledge you want and I can comment on that comment which is whats happening. Thinking you know how to do this because you mess with amateur radio is like thinking you can implement a web portal for national healthcare services just because you learned some JavaScript and Python.