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Don’t look up: There are sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites

We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and examined all of the geostationary satellite communications visible from our vantage point. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens’ voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks.

English
  • Originally Aired December 28, 2025
  • Runtime 40 minutes
  • Production Code 1827
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  • Created December 22, 2025 by
    r4m3u5
  • Modified January 10, 2026 by
    ZiggyTheHamster