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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:41:16 +0000
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- Thus, if both ends of a two-mobile
- conversation have encryption, the conversation never appears on the
- air-waves in clear.
-
- Even so, this in itself is probably not enough to secure the
- conversation from interception by GCHQ or NSA. It would be reasonable
- to assume that the resources of these organisations are capable of
- breaking ANY encryption system available for public use. [If not, what
- is the taxpayer's money being spent on?] Hopefully, they expend their
- energies on communications which are more important than Charles and
- Camilla's pillow talk, but how are we to know?
-
- I doubt very much whether GCHQ have *ever* had to listen to cellular calls
- off the airwaves. If they do, I offer them my services as a consultant
- dead cheap to tell them how to do it the easy way ;-)
-
- I think it's fairly well acknowleged nowadays that GCHQ and the SIS 'Post
- Office Employees' in Scotland Yard's telex centre devote a fair bit of
- their time to studying business transactions to help Britain's favoured
- government-friendly industries. I suspect the odd 'old-boy' phonecall
- to the highups in BA etc is a pretty common occurrence.
-
- G
-