Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3I just heard yet another story of how a #LGBTQIA #amateurradio op was #doxxed off the air & I've heard deliberate QRM on OMIK & WARFA nets as well as on the frequency that Caribbean hams frequent. Where's the @fcc? Where's the @arrl?
What's it going to take to stop this nonsense? Are we waiting for big corps to take over our frequencies because they will make better use of them than we do?🤑
I can't help but wonder about how many new #HamRadio ops turn on their new radios (or websdr.org) and after hearing the hate spewing on the bands turn off their radios forever.
Y'all this is radio. The waves go all over the world and out into the universe. Oh well, good thing you don't ID. 🙄
I'm sure someone has already written a #scifi trope about how #extraterestrials decide the smoke Earth because the all the nastiness radiating outward.
Look. y'all can't just say you want #diversity in #hamradio and not make it safe for the diversifiers. 🤪 I like how @PrideRadioGroup and OMIK are using #digital comms that inherently support #nonrepudiation--you have to sign up & use your callsign or no talkie for you.👍
The @fcc should stop publishing people's home addresses. I've been an amateur since the 1970s. I've never had a problem with anything unwanted showing up at my address other than catalogs. But I just got a PO Box on recommendation from my #itsecurity and #LGBTQIA friends. Weird times.
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Leon P Smith@wb2ifs @PrideRadioGroup Oh, I've been thinking about a next-gen APRS protocol for a few years now.
What do you mean non-repudiation in this context? As in the higher-level protocol in the digital mode supports actual cryptographic authentication, or something else?
@leon_p_smith @PrideRadioGroup I mean that you can't connect without IDing. Take #Echolink for example. The system verifies your license b4 you can access and then you cannot make "transmissions" on it without IDing with your callsign. In other words, you can't deny that you transmitted whatever you transmitted. I'm repurposing the word but I'll yield to a better one.
@leon_p_smith @PrideRadioGroup I suppose that you could spoof #Echolink but I don't want to think about that now. I've been whining all morning and I need to do something else.
Maybe there's a better word, but I think "non-repudiation" fits, I just wasn't sure exactly what context it fits.
Non-repudiation has a fairly specific meaning in cryptography, but I don't want to imply it can't have any meaning outside cryptography.
Yeah I totally think ham-oriented digital modes should automatically ID on every packet, whether or not it's spoofable.
Cryptographic signatures simply tie the origin of a message to the origin of a key. If you were to add cryptographic authentication to a ham radio protocol, you need to be able to answer questions about how the public keys are managed, authenticated, and distributed.
I started writing down my very preliminary thoughts about the issues that a next-gen APRS protocol should address. It rambles a bit, but it is here if you are curious:
