Pittsburgh police radio breach wouldn’t take much money or skill, experts warn

Pittsburgh police headquarters on the city’s North Side. (Justin Vellucci | TribLive)

It doesn’t cost much to break onto a police-scanner channel and curse, spew hateful language or threaten an elected leader as an “unauthorized user” has been doing this week in Pittsburgh, experts told TribLive Wednesday.

In fact, right on Amazon.com, the popular Chinese brand Baofeng sells hundreds of two-way radios that can be adapted to do just that for less than $50…

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