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Peaker on Dec 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Report: Iran Hacked, Hijacked U.S. Drone

Doesn't everyone get to use the "military signal" now?

The LSB's used to be encrypted, but the codes are public now?

blhack on Dec 16, 2011 [–]

I believe what happened was that some hackers went to known locations on the planet, listened to the signal, then used these pairings to reverse engineer it.

Eventually it was simply declassified.

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