At 09:41 AM 11/22/96 -6, Peter Trei wrote (in part):

It's kind of pathetic - I'm sure that the billions lost to cellular fraud far outweigh the value of crimes that the LEA groups have been able prevent by preserving their ability to illegally eavesdrop on cell calls without a warrant.

Lots of TV specials lately on stealing cell-phone codes and cloning phones. Seems to me that this would be ridiculously easy to stop using crypto. As a side issue (related to your comment about banning the listening in on cell-phone calls). I find it pretty amazing that it is possible to make it illegal to listen to signals broadcast over public airways. Yet another way crypto will help society - it will make such laws restricting our freedoms obsolete. Clay

Peter Trei trei@process.com (standard disclaimer applies)

Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei@process.com

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