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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I have difficulty believing that. One thing we've all learned in the modern computing age is that anything can be hacked.
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Hacked is a highly qualified statement. There's lots of components of communication systems that can be "hacked". Some parts are much easier than others, the encryption systems tends to sit more on the computationally infeasible end of the spectrum. Most successful hacks are more on the user side of a system like brute force guessing poorly generated/reused encryption keys.
So I'm definitely not saying systems are unhackable, it's just the PCs aren't going to be able to "hack" encrypted comms with a pre-TDM laptop they might have with them. Even if they were hauling around a supercomputer they couldn't expect to brute force any military encryption.