How do pagers work? - eviltoast

In recent events, I learned that some pagers only have receivers. How are discrete messages sent to these devices? How is it authenticated? How do they know the device got the message?

  • grudan@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Yeah and my guess is that they’d be less private because if they act as a transmitter, I think they could potentially be triangulated.