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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
- Message-ID: <8244@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:40:03 GMT
- References: <JIM.93Jan20163908@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.161524.20250@visionware.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan22.161524.20250@visionware.co.uk>
- simon@visionware.co.uk (Simon Taylor) writes:
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- # [...] a new encryption system being tested by Vodaphone. The system
- # does not require a descrambler at the non-mobile end of the conversation
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- Sounds like a marketing man's product to me.
-
- `Sebastian, I say, what can we sell the toffs once they've bought a
- mobile phone?'
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- `Well, Jules, we could try to sell their wives one. To ring home in
- case they get kidnapped by a mad axe-wielding rapist. To set their
- husbands' minds at ease. We could sort of pretend the cost is lower by
- putting the price up, if you see what I...'
-
- `We tried that. Any more bright ideas?'
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- `How about a sort of encryption thingy, so that when you annoy everyone
- on the train by phoning your wife and telling her you're late, which she
- already knows because you haven't got home yet, nobody else will know?'
-
- `Except everybody in the carriage, of course.'
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- --
- Son, all the pretty, intelligent, healthy # I have discovered of this
- young women are taken. It's a basic rule of # basic rule of the universe
- the universe, and if you don't like it, go # a most remarkable proof,
- somewhere else. -- my dad 1906-1992 # which this .signature is too
-