Outreach News - 8/12/2011

1. PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU ANNOUNCES REGION 6 (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA) 800 MHZ NPSPAC PUBLIC SAFETY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE TO HOLD MEETING. (DA No. 11-1397). (Dkt No 90-287 ) Next meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 23, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Cordelia Fire Department. PSHSB
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-11-1397A1.doc
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-11-1397A1.pdf
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-11-1397A1.txt

2. In the news:

P25 radios vulnerable to eavesdropping, can be jammed by child's toy - Weaknesses in the emerging interoperability standards for radios used by law enforcement agencies make the supposedly secure systems vulnerable to eavesdropping and jamming, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported. The researchers, who presented their findings at this week’s Usenix Security Symposium in San Francisco, were able to build an effective low-powered jamming device from an inexpensive children’s texting toy and intercepted sensitive traffic that was supposed to have been encrypted. They spent two years examining the Project 25 land mobile radio standards in a study partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20090434-281/security-flaw-found-in-feds-digital-radios/ Paper http://www.crypto.com/papers/p25sec.pdf

Access to NG9-1-1- emergency system to be explored by FCC advisory panel on August 12 http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/24156?c=communications