Re: [sg] platoon stuff and combat engineers

--- Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net> wrote:
>
> > And since I send people to prison for misplacing
> > COMSEC equipment, you AREN'T listening to mine.
> 
> There's a saying in the computer industry,
> "Security by obscurity isn't".  If your equipment

Computer security != military radio security.  It's
pretty well known that no one listens to US SINCGARS
transmissions, while the only hope people like Al-Q
(who seem to be using cell phones for most commo) have
is to hope that we can't pick out and translate their
transmissions in time to make use of them.  This isn't
like the internet where every pimple-faced dweeb with
not enough morals and far too much time on his hands
can spend endless amounts of time and computer power
trying to break the security.  If you can't find the
freq I'm using, you can't even record the damn message
in order to try and break the crypto.  :)

> can't
> handle inspection by the enemy then it is pretty
> worthless.  It will eventually all boil down to good

If you get a filled radio, in short order you are
talking to everyone using that fill.  If you get a
z-ed out one, it's beneficial but in the long run, not
the short run.	Since I'm talking about an operation
as expensive as invading a planet, it's being planned
in the long term.

There are people in prison in the US for being
negligent about comsec equipment.  I doubt this will
change.
 
> The problem is most governments don't want their
> civilians
> to have truly secure communications.

No, they don't.

Why would they?  Why do you need secure tactical
radios?  Who are you going to war with?

John

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