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TETRA? The radio protocol used by the police?
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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No it's the tech behind milk cartons, tetrapak
It's what caused all those children to go missing
Sacrifices had to be made
Sigh...
I did not expect them to be so dumb as to break their own specific encryption systems...
Well, I guess I expected the bare minimum from the government, and they let me down...
....again.
Also, the implementation is fucking horrible. The rule is literally "Press, Think, Speak", because requesting to speak and opening a connection takes a solid 5-10 seconds. Very good if you want to communicate while in a burning house. Literally everybody hates it.
Are you using a different Tetra than anyone else? Because every radio i have used takes at max 1-1,5s to establish communications?
Oh, what the fuck?
One of the key benefits of radio communications, is that it acts as a megaphone, but only to people monitoring the channel.
Press the PTT key, and talk (following established radio protocol), 5-10 sec delay is crap!
That sounds horrible. What about this stupid standard takes this fucking long? Is it not improvable by current tech?
They are working on it. The TETRA standard is from the 90s, and by now the last fire departments are switching to it (TETRA)
Maybe 20 years between the federal decision and the last county implementing the new standard.
Just fuckin' start rectally examining every damm citizen!
yep, just in case theyre hiding a terrorist or pedophile up there.
But THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!1!
Disregard how 1184 children died in the US to cars and 162,298 were injured in 2021 alone