Starfleet Subspace Communicator Teardown (21st Century Earth Issue)
Added 2021-08-31 19:18:57 +0000 UTCMy thanks to Starfleet for offering up this super cool 21st Century Retro Earth issue communicator for us to open up and take an in-depth look at the amazing pseudo tech inside. Enjoy!
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How does Starfleet handle the loss of communicators? Surely it would be a CCI "Controlled Cryptographic Item". I can't count the number of times communicators and phasers were confiscated during some away mission. Surely the communicators are "keyed" with a time-sensitive cryptographic code. Or, maybe not? Can a Klingon just take a communicator from some Starfleet officer and have instant access to the subspace frequency network? Even frequency hopping requires a coded key. But no one seems to care that communicators should be a COMSEC risk. An adversary can reverse-engineer a communicator, like you did, and crack the subspace codes. Unless there is some sort of biometric connection between a communicator and its owner, how do they risk letting a communicator falling into enemy hands? And think of the implication of phaser weapons falling into the hands of adversaries during battle, or the usual no-fight away-team surrender of weapons? Even a Tricorder could contain sensor technology that could be advantageous to an enemy with less sophisticated sensor technology. There's a huge problem with intellectual property loss and the undoing of billions of dollars worth of encryption technology that would have to be replaced. I mean, if they make communicators in China, how secure can it be? If you can buy one, anyone can. I demand an accountability program regarding all weapons and equipment deployed during away-team activities. This could be a major issue with the Romulans!
Matt Wietlispach
2021-09-02 05:04:04 +0000 UTCOh wow that takes me back haha. Have you seen the Picorder project? https://youtu.be/S3Ucf63uZ6A Tell me you don't want to make one?
veritanuda
2021-09-01 15:17:58 +0000 UTCHilarious! I have this very device - my favorite Bluetooth accessory. ð
Fred Patton
2021-09-01 03:30:39 +0000 UTCYou have made Starfleet proud!
Carol K Stouffer
2021-09-01 02:14:33 +0000 UTC"Admiral - There be whales here!"
John N Nelson
2021-09-01 02:02:36 +0000 UTCFunny as hell Fran. You sure have the gift of gab in this video. Coooool.
Steve Whitacre
2021-08-31 23:02:41 +0000 UTCThank God they got rid of the Lithium Ion battery, when the realised how environmentally destructive lithium mining was. Notice I used the old nomenclature for the universal force to stay in character with the past.
Dr Andy Hill
2021-08-31 20:13:07 +0000 UTC
