Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 16:59:45 GMT From: Bud Couch Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wireless Phone Security Message-ID: Organization: Kentrox Industries, Inc. Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 480, Message 2 of 11 Lines: 33 In article bill@fisher.eedsp.gatech.edu writes: > In article "It Was Written...": >> On ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley" White House staffer John >> Sununu claimed he was `on the phone practically the whole time' as he >> was being chauffeur driven from Washington to New York to attend a >> rare stamp auction, among other things. One wonders how secure his >> phone was ... (those had better be all business calls, John :-)). > Although I don't know it for certain, I would assume that Sununu had a > limo which is equipped with a cellular STU-III. STU is an acronym for > Secure Telephone Unit (III indicating the third generation of such). > STU-IIIs come in landline and cellular models, the last I heard. > It is also possible that he used another form of communications > available to the White House. They've gotta stay in touch, you know! I think that the latter is the more probable. White House communications is handled by the military -- the Air Force -- to be exact. Most of the technical people for this are Air Force em's. They get to wear civilian clothes, so it isn't real obvious. The military has all sorts of comm paths that can be used from a moving vehicle (on the ground or in the air), especially a White House limo which has had all the goodies installed. Your tax dollars at work! Bud Couch - ADC/Kentrox If my employer only knew.. standard BS applies