Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: riddle@hoss.unl.edu (Michael H. Riddle) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: President Bush Uses Cellular? Message-ID: <10876@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Aug 90 21:52:19 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: University of Nebraska, Computing Resource Center Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 570, Message 6 of 10 In <10833@accuvax.nwu.edu> Thomas Lapp writes: >In a photograph which ran in my local newspaper (source: AP >wirephoto), it showed President Bush talking to a military leader from >his golf cart. The phone appeared to be a plain old cellular >telephone, although there was a smaller box attached to the main >transceiver unit. >Can I rest knowing that his cellular phone call was scrambled? I didn't see the picture, but from somewhat dated personal knowledge of how the White House Communications Agency does business, I'd think that the unexplained smaller box was /exactly/ an encryption unit. The other option is that they merely agreed on when to talk on a /really/ secure line. It's always possible that they discussed real business on an open line, but the folks in that line of work didn't get there by being dumb! riddle@hoss.unl.edu riddle@crchpux.unl.edu mike.riddle@f27.n285.z1.fidonet.org Sysop on 1:285/27 @ Fidonet