On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Mark E. Skeels wrote:

>> I wonder why the video link wasn't encrypted, though?

 From the article: "The vulnerability could date back to the 1990s,  
said Peter Singer, a military technology analyst for the Brookings  
Institution."

Some of you might recall the 1990s; CPUs back then didn't have as many  
GIPS as they do now, and real-time encrypt/decrypt of video-rate data  
might not have been such a no-brainer (assume that a "vulnerability"  
dating back to 90s means a design dating back to early 90s.  Pre- 
pentium!)

The article goes on to imply that encryption was intentionally turned  
off to improve real-time multiple-viewer access to the video.

Mountain out of molehill if you ask me...

BillW

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