The portable radios used by many federal law enforcement agents have major security flaws that allowed researchers to intercept hundreds of hours of sensitive traffic sent without encryption over the past two years, according to a new study being released today.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/10/ ... sdropping/
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/ ... 102011.pdf
News: Security Flaws in Feds’ Radios Make for Easy Eavesdrop
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How embarrassment! 
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It is very dark.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.