Re: Newt's phone calls

["Bruce M." <bkmarsh@feist.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:

> There is a very basic reason that cell phones are not encrypted; the government does not
> want them encrypted. Many an arrest has been made from infromation gathered from
> cell/wireless phone conversations. AFAIK the police do not even need a search warent to do
> this.
> 
> With the cell phone industry regulated by the FCC I doubt that you will ever
> see cell phone's with built in encryption.
> 
> As far as the general public is concerned the majority are sheep. They are
> quite content to know that it is illegal for their neighbor to listen in and
> ofcource Big Brother would only listen to those nasty drug dealers & mobsters.

    A decent article about the subject (one that also gives us some historical 
proof of the govt's desires) can be found at:

http://www.feist.com/~tqdb/h/062694-1.txt

    By the way, I'm finding all these articles on the page:

http://www.feist.com/~tqdb/evis-idx.html

for those who care.

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