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RE: 'Sunday Times' article on GSM changes
In Message Fri, 5 Feb 93 13:14:58 EST,
[email protected] (Murdering Thug) writes:
>According to what I read it seems that the whole issue of cellular radio
>signal encryption is really a non-issue. They could have the most secure
>standard for radio signal encryption and it wouldn't matter. The FBI
>already uses tie lines and REMOBs (remote observation units) at the telephone
>switching centers to access the conversation on any particular local loop
>(phone number) that they want.
The reason cells are encrypting is to protect against "unauthorized
persons" [i.e civilians who havn't joined the fedz and DON'T live off other
people's money [ours]]. I think this is another case that shows: letting
other people encrypt your data for your protection never works out to be
much good. I agree with Thug in that we need to employ our OWN encryption
from one end to the other. That CRYPTOCUP soundz pretty good right about
now. TTFN!
DrZaphod
[AC/DC] / [DnA][HP]
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