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Subject: Re: Emergency Highway Phones
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Date: 10 Jun 91 16:18:54 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 444, Message 2 of 10

In TELECOM Digest V11 #429, Darren Alex Griffiths writes:
 
> The idea is pretty neat, but it does raise a few interesting
> questions. I wonder what kind of security measures are taken. I'm not
> to worried about some bad guy over hearing a distress call from an
> helpless motorist at four in the morning and getting there before the
> cops. 

Actually, this could be QUITE dangereous.  The motorists could be in
danger of having a rapist, mugger, etc. over hear the conversation and
dash to the site ahead of the cops (I doubt it would much of a feat to
beat the cops to the scene).  With the number of murders, robberies,
etc. that happen to stranded moterists on Interstates, I think this is
a serious concern.


Tim Irvin