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While the findings are solid and the denial is despicable corpspeak, I fear the data is still way safer this way than letting the same kind of contractors build a "secure" app and then finding all that data neatly ordered in an open S3 bucket or MongoDB a year later.

Nobody‘s gonna put up an antenna over years collecting all this noisy stuff.

On top, my condolences for the hospital IT staff having to exchange thousands of real pagers with real doctors, and train them again over the course of several months, all for a pretty synthetic finding that took them a couple of hours.

Builders vs. breakers all again... Well, you got your attention, guys.




> Nobody‘s gonna put up an antenna over years collecting all this noisy stuff

What do you think all the antennas on embassy buildings are for?


> Nobody‘s gonna put up an antenna over years collecting all this noisy stuff.

I think you misjudged how interested in radio some people can be. People do this to ADS-B (airplane location) all the time.




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