[FedCom] re: CAP OPSEC

[BEADWINDOW at aol.com]

CAP is told to start using a little more OPSEC, and some of you guys  go nuts 
& launch some warped campaign to defeat it.  CAP isn't being  all paranoid & 
encrypting circuits, they're just not going to make the data  available to 
anyone & everyone -- including CAP members who don't need  it.  If a CAP member 
has a scanner, he or she will probably be able to  figure out how to use it to 
find CAP freqs if they want to.  Such knowledge  isn't restricted to the holy 
wise men of FEDCOM.
 
 CAP is going to have an increased role in some Homeland Security  missions. 
Sounds like a good, relatively inexpensive use of CAP to me.  Homeland 
Security missions are FOUO. DHS/USAF/CAP takes some very simple  efforts to improve 
OPSEC, and some of you end up getting very emotional about  it, and post some 
pretty dumb things -- mostly straw-man arguments.
 
  Just because CAP isn't going to publish ther freq/channel plan, it  doesn't 
mean they're doing so because its the only thing they can do to protect  
their comms, nor has CAP ever implied that the proposed radio comm plan is going  
to magically result in their communications being secure.   If CAP is  going 
to work with DEA, the only thing that will exclude CAP's ability to  use secure 
DEA channels is some of your  imaginations.