• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    The pagers scare me. Thankfully it seems they aren’t used where I live at all anymore, but the classic POCSAG/FLEX pagers transfer the data in plaintext, and I’ve heard that doctors often use them for sensitive information as well. Meanwhile all you need for receiving and decoding POCSAG or FLEX is a $5 generic RTL-SDR and software like multimon-ng.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I meant broadcast paging over the intercom system like “Dr. Whomever please report to pre-op,” but I agree the old beeper style pagers were a bit sketch