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- From: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Guy Frezza)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Privacy -- encrypt/decrypt devices on Wireless phones
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:00:06 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Guy Frezza)
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- I would like to ask, specifically, if anyone has information
- concerning encrypting/decrypting wireless phones? Someone mentioned in a
- recent post that Motorola has such a thing, but, how about AT&T or other
- big giants? Do they have any wireless phones that are "secure" or are
- there any plans for it, on a wide-scale basis? I must say, that about a
- couple of months ago, my son borrowed a friend's hand-held scanner, and
- began to listen, just out of curiousity. When I heard him listening in
- to wireless phone conversations, I became annonyed and explained to him
- that it was not right to listen in on private conversations. I beccame
- quite upset, knowing the potential of this problem. I see no reason why
- for example, a base unit and a handheld cordless phone, cannot have at
- least the same privacy as a wired line. For this reason, I am asking this
- question as a serious one. I surely would not like someone eavesdropping
- on my conversations. I know that the choice was mine, but did not realized
- how simple it was to intercept a wirless conversation. If there are no
- specific wirless base-handheld phones that employ sophisicated privacy
- features, are there any devices that can be added to existing wirless
- phones? Thanks.
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- Dan Frezza
- Internet: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
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