Traditionally pagers use either FLEX or POCSAG protocols, both of which are fully unencrypted and have to broadcast everywhere with relatively high power… So safer is maybe a bit of a misnomer… But they also don’t transmit anything so in terms of remote listening and location tracking, yes they are safer.
Absolutely, I’m just putting some nuance into it for people who don’t know anything about pagers.
Fair, but it appears these were Apollo Gold A25, an off the shelf FLEX system.