{"id":7760,"date":"2025-10-18T05:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/a-surprising-amount-of-satellite-traffic-is-unencrypted-html\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:04:49","slug":"a-surprising-amount-of-satellite-traffic-is-unencrypted-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/a-surprising-amount-of-satellite-traffic-is-unencrypted-html\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu\/\">summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens\u2019 voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks. This data can be passively observed by anyone with a few hundred dollars of consumer-grade hardware. There are thousands of geostationary satellite transponders globally, and data from a single transponder may be visible from an area as large as 40% of the surface of the earth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Full <a href=\"https:\/\/satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu\/docs\/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf\">paper<\/a>. News <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/satellites-are-exposing-unprotected-cellphone-and-military-data-study-finds-2000672091\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/10\/a-surprising-amount-of-satellite-traffic-is-unencrypted.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted Here\u2019s the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,57,95,1940,1090,412,1115,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-papers","category-bruce-schneier","category-cell-phones","category-data-protection","category-eavesdropping","category-encryption","category-infrastructure","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}