A group of university researchers in the U.S. have spent the last several years pointing satellites above their Southern California campus, and they’ve discovered that most satellite communications are not private.

The team is using roughly U.S. $800 (C$1,124) of equipment to make this happen, and all of it was readily available to them, suggesting anyone could figure this out with enough knowledge. Using their homemade satillite interceptor the team has been able to pick up on regualar calls, messages, military chatter and much more.

Right now, they’re presenting their findings at the Computing Machinery Conference in Taiwan, but in a report on Wired , they did mention that they’ve been spending the last year notifying companies that this data is accessible, and a lot of them are now en

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