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A HIGH-TECH WAR ON DRUGS

Mobile VPNs are key to law enforcement alliance in Southern states

December 30, 1998 Web posted at: 3:05 PM EST

by L. Scott Tillett From... Civic.com

(IDG) -- Counternarcotics units in four Southern states soon will begin piloting a new technology that allows law enforcement officials to work securely on mobile computers -- palmtops and laptops -- to create virtual private networks (VPNs) over the Internet.

As many as 3,000 law enforcement officials in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi will use a new software application product called Viatores to build a secure VPN for sharing information while investigating drug-related crimes. A small start-up company in Northern Virginia, Ecutel LLC, pioneered the application.

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