New from Andy Greenberg (npub13va…aerq) and me: For three years, security researchers pointed a satellite at the sky and collected all the traffic they could find— they were shocked to find highly sensitive data unencrypted.
They found: calls and text messages on T-Mobile’s cellular network; military and law enforcement info from the US and Mexico; in-flight Wi-Fi browsing; communications to and from critical infrastructure such as electric utilities and offshore oil and gas platform; and a whole host more
https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/