[afgrant]

The “unlicensed” aspect was never preventing this. Do you deny the basic benefits of end-to-end encryption?

[mbreese]

Is end to end encryption even beneficial in a public broadcast medium? I mean, you’d need to send the encryption key as part of the broadcast. There isn’t an out of band channel to transmit a key, so how could this even work in a secure way? Or will they require an internet connect for key distribution? That seems antithetical to the purpose of broadcast TV.

Signing the signal is all you need to be able to validate that the signal came from the broadcaster. But even this assumes that the public key will be transmitted often and the rogue pirate broadcast a bad key.

[mynameisvlad]

It actually explicitly prevents this, legally speaking. That was my whole point. This was already explicitly illegal.

[cogman10]

> Do you deny the basic benefits of end-to-end encryption?

Yes.

Encryption is for keeping communication private. There's no benefit when communication is meant to be public.

If you want signal integrity, you can sign the signal. But even that is overkill. The threat and harm of intrusion is extremely low.