alt Hacker NewsI would guess the business model is 'pay us and we'll give you the encryption key to our coded transmissions'.
Those coded transmissions are far harder to jam unless you have the key. So it's all about selling to as many customers as possible whilst having not a single customer leak the key.
That's why militaries use keys that rotate daily and won't let anyone else use the military signal.
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XorNot • yesterday at 9:33 AM
No they're harder to spoof. Jamming is easy, but requires more power to achieve a desired effect and as they note they're planning to operate a low altitude constellation with closer transmitters as a result, so harder to swamp the signal for the receiver.
Why wouldn't they use public key cryptography for that?