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Can anyone recommend a good 900 Mhz. cordless phone with some sort of voice encryption or scrambling? My most important objective is maximum range from the base unit, but I'd also like some privacy, too. Thanks.
If all you're looking for is "some privacy", any of the digital systems will give you some, and spread-spectrum systems should do more. That'll do better than simple analog scrambling to keep scanner-users from listening in on your calls; spread-spectrum systems will continue to be useful after the scanner-users get basic digital capability. Neither one will really keep the NSA out, but they can tap the wireline your phone's base unit is connected to anyway :-) If you want to know whether a set is using spread-spectrum or just vanilla digital, you'll get better information at a specialty telephone or electronics store than at the large discount warehouse-place where you'll probably eventually buy it (:-), but it may take you a few contacts with manufacturers to find out more than what's on the box. (Shameless plug follows:) I think I remember reading that AT&T was doing a spread-spectrum cordless with a range of about a mile, and a price in the $400 range, but I haven't really kept track. (List-traffic-reduction plug follows:) I would have replied by email instead of sending this to all 700 people on the list, but you used a remailer without return message capability. anon.penet.fi gives you an anonymous account, and some of the cypherpunks remailers like soda.berkeley.edu now support encrypted return-blocks. Bill