Bacon003
Bacon003 t1_iydt794 wrote
Reply to ELI5 Why can someone easily pick up other signals on a walkie-talkie, but you can’t easily listen in to cellphone conversations? by king063
You used to be able to use a scanner to listen to cell phone conversations decades ago before they were encrypted. It was actually kinda fascinating. The type of 850 mhz band scanner you needed was on the more expensive side at the time, but was still the sort of thing you could by at Radio Shack.
I have a pet theory that there's probably a few people who got rich using insider information they gleaned from picking up conversations in the Wall Street area that the participants thought were confidential.
Bacon003 t1_j900dpc wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Otherworldly Landscape in Utah [1080x1350][OC] by holy-shot
Henry Mountains. Bull Mountain on the far left is very distinctive.