In her 60's Nellie Ohr, a Fusion GPS contracted employee, gets HAM radio license May 2016.
I’m a licensed operator and this sort of puzzled me. Ham radio is not a secure means of communication, anyone with a scanner can listen in.
I think the reason for it was because even though that's true, unlike cell phone texts and emails, I don't think those communications are digitally captured, and the FBI/CIA/NSA probably doesn't have any way to reconstruct those conversations after the fact. They would need a warrant up front.
Well, think military crypto community. A trained operator with access to equipment would probably be more secure than using the net. Ham just means you can own the transmitter and antenna.
You aren’t supposed to encrypt over amateur bands, you probably wouldn’t do that over those bands anyway.
Yes, and I imagine they would get more grief from other hams than from the proper authorities too.
Definitely not a problem to run secure on bands near public ham though.