On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
There is a very basic reason that cell phones are not encrypted; the government does not want them encrypted. Many an arrest has been made from infromation gathered from cell/wireless phone conversations. AFAIK the police do not even need a search warent to do this.
With the cell phone industry regulated by the FCC I doubt that you will ever see cell phone's with built in encryption.
As far as the general public is concerned the majority are sheep. They are quite content to know that it is illegal for their neighbor to listen in and ofcource Big Brother would only listen to those nasty drug dealers & mobsters.
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