Re: Oh for a decently encrypted mobile phone...

[Paul Lambert]

At 10:08 PM 9/13/00 -0700, Bram Cohen wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>
> > http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/09/10/stinwenws01007.html
> >
> > SOLDIERS are having to use insecure mobile phones to communicate in
> > battlefield exercises because, they say, the army's radio
> > communications system is so unreliable. Senior commanders be-lieve
> > that the reliability of mobile phones outweighs the increased risk of
> > conversations being intercepted.
>
>Wouldn't it be ironic if they resort to buying a bunch of stariums ...

I would suspect that they already buy a version of the device below:

http://www.motorola.com/GSS/SSTG/ISSPD/Secure_Telecom/CipherTAC.html



Paul