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Re: Oh for a decently encrypted mobile phone...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Thu Sep 14 11:05:10 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: Enzo Michelangeli <enzo.michelangeli@firstecom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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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 ...
-Bram Cohen
[That would require that Stariums actually appear on the market at
some point. --Perry]
