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That means a dish in a different place would pick up entirely different data. Probably an entirely different stream of unencrypted secrets.

As cryptographer Matt Blaze told me:

A lot of this data, such as the T-Mobile leak, is now encrypted thanks to the researchers' work. But all of it was obtained from a single dish on the roof of a building in San Diego. These findings are based on just 15% of geostationary satellite signals over the US and Mexico.

But some of the data the researchers found was even more sensitive: US and Mexican military and law enforcement communications that revealed the locations of personnel, equipment, and facilities. Industrial control system communications to power grids and offshore oil and gas.

Most striking to me was that the data included phone calls and text messages from several US and Mexican phone carriers. Remote cell towers connect to core carrier networks via satellite, relaying conversations via space—sometimes with no encryption.

Their study, out today, reveals that roughly half of geostationary satellite communications they monitored were unencrypted. A flood of secrets pouring down from space, available to anyone with an $800 receiver setup. (And there's no doubt spy agencies have been listening, too.)

Thanks to IOActive for their help and a couple nice Vegas locals for being good sports about getting cheated in a game of poker on camera.

Morale of the story: when a smart device is involved, you'll never know if the odds are stacked against you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...

So Joseph and I created a system of covert signaling where the hacked shuffler would send to his phone the exact cards in everyone's hands, and he'd silently tell me how to bet. Stay tuned for the part where I'm such a terrible poker player that I almost lost anyway.