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A whole lot of vulnerabilities apparently exist in Meshtastic encryption? (partyon.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago by black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

in the US at least its about broadcast power level. HAMs can broadcast louder but cant enable encryption. default firmware shipped to the US limits your power level so you remain legal.

*i should add that is MY understanding of the situation and i'm no lawyer.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

You have it correct. If you're using ham mode, you're allowed to use more power, but hams cannot have encrypted data. Therefore, ham mode is disabled by default.

Also with Ham Mode, if you do enable it, you can only talk to other nodes also using Ham Mode, unencrypted. Therefore, you lose access to the majority of the mesh, which makes it kind of pointless, except for experiments.