Mass-market crypto phones
Clay Olbon II
olbon at ix.netcom.com
Fri Nov 22 07:06:54 PST 1996
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 at process.com
>(standard disclaimer applies)
>
>Peter Trei
>Senior Software Engineer
>Purveyor Development Team
>Process Software Corporation
>http://www.process.com
>trei at process.com
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