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Article #5031Re: Cordless phone recommendations
From: Joel Kolstad
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:54
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:54
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In article <1ik5kdINNnhm@hp-col.col.hp.com> tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke) writes: > >Beware, it is very easy for someone to listen to your conversations. >Even the new 900Mhz units are not secure, except for the Tropez unit. Motorola also has a new line of cordless phones (which are being sold through Sears) that have a "Secure Clear" feature that scrambles the transmissions. I don't know how secure it is, those -- it may well be some simple analog srambling like frequency inversion, which is easy to undo, but it certainly will keep out your casual scanner listener. Anyone here from Motorola want to comment?
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Newsgroups: misc.consumers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!kolstad From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) Subject: Re: Cordless phone recommendations Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering Date: 8 Jan 93 10:54:26 CST Message-ID: <1993Jan8.105426.6130@doug.cae.wisc.edu> References: <1993Jan7.200539.26488@informix.com> <1ik5kdINNnhm@hp-col.col.hp.com> Lines: 11