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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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Matt Wietlispach
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!
veritanuda
Oh 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?
Fred Patton
Hilarious! I have this very device - my favorite Bluetooth accessory. 😄
Carol K Stouffer
You have made Starfleet proud!
John N Nelson
"Admiral - There be whales here!"
Steve Whitacre
Funny as hell Fran. You sure have the gift of gab in this video. Coooool.
Dr Andy Hill
Thank 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.
