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Article #2597Privacy -- encrypt/decrypt devices on Wireless phones
From: Danny Guy Frezza
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:00
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:00
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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. -- Dan Frezza Internet: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bz223 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) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1hpsm7INNp2i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Guy Frezza) NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu