Anyone ever listen to their local police scanner?

[Zargon]

all the cool stuff happens on the encrypted channels now


but all the regular patrol traffic is generally open because of licenses costs(thanks motorola!)

 

[mmntech]

It's part of my job. Toronto Police encrypts most of their stuff now though you can usually get to hear some cool stuff on the EMS radio. I'll occasionally hear about shootings, your you'll hear a cop chasing someone. EMS has all the really fun stuff though. Like the time this teenage boy got the broom handle stuck up his bum. That was funny enough but the conversation between dispatch and the ambulance was priceless.

I'll also occasionally hear people fighting with their boss over the open channels.

 

[John Connor]

I use to be able to listen to cell phones and hearing the cops or the ambulance was priceless. I also decoded pager transmissions. Yes, they still use pagers.

As far as encryption goes, ADP or DES- OFB can be broken, but AES can't. I want to developa program for SDR that can brute force the key. But then you have over the air rekeying involved so if you do manage to find the key you must progarm it into a /\/\otorola radio right away to follow rekeying. Clone the radio to the dispatcher and badda bing! Can't take you off the system. What I mention here is highly illegal. Will I develop an app to brute force a key? IDK.