[TheList] Who needs digital encryption when you have telephones

Thu Aug 30 09:22:15 AEST 2012

Reading this, its the exact reason they need encryption. Had they had
encryption, they could have explained the situation over the air,
rather than screwing around with phones.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Gary Lowndes <gary at flightpath.co.nz> wrote:
> Heard the tones committing a fire appliance to a call a few minutes after
> midnight and then something very much like this. Appliance and station and a
> name tampered with just in case ...
>
> "Manukau 999, proceed to Ferndale station, contact firecomm for job details"
>
> (pause)
>
> "Firecomm, Manukau 999, why do we have to proceed to Ferndale station ?"
>
> "Manukau 999, you'll be briefed at Ferndale station or when you telephone
> firecomm"
>
> Then there was a message for someone to "ring the number that David Palmer
> has given you, urgently"
>
> And then I think firecomm asked 999 if they had copied that and they replied
> yes and that "Counties 2" had the details and was going to ring them
> directly.
>
> So ...  who needs encryption !
>
> What sort of job would that have been ? I'm not after specifics (obviously
> that's a lie LOL) just wondering what Fire would go to that they wouldn't
> want anyone to know they were going to - all I can think of is stuff along
> the lines of lurking around the corner while the blue and red taxi company
> collect a chef from a kitchen that's likely to explode ?
>
> Now getting tones for appliance movements. I need to start running a
> recorder again, and my selcall decoder !
>
> And what is "counties 2", which is the actual callsign used - wouldn't be
> something to do with the Counties Manukau Police District would it ?
>
>
>
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