CDR: Re: Mobile phone guns seized

[Tim May]

At 1:02 AM -0400 10/29/00, jim bell wrote:
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>From: An Metet <anmetet at mixmaster.shinn.net>
>Subject: Mobile phone guns seized
>>  FROM DAVID LISTER IN BRUSSELS
>>  HANDGUNS made to look like mobile phones and activated by tapping a button
>on the keypad are among a stockpile of deadly gadgets seized by police after
>being smuggled into The Netherlands from Yugoslavia.
>
>Okay, but how many cents per minute, huh?  Do I gotta sign a contract?  Is
>the data stream encrypted with GSM?  What's the talk-time?  Roaming charges?
>

Their product is _targeted_ at those who want _shell_ accounts and 
who have the right _cartridge_ drives. Sounds like a _bullseye_ to 
me. This may _trigger_ more such products, according to a _magazine_ 
article I read. Scraping the _barrel_, I'd say, so maybe we need to 
_muzzle_ the reporters.


--Tim May
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