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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
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Subject: Re: Neighbor Bugs Family By Eavesdropping
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Date: 11 Dec 89 03:04:40 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 568, message 3 of 13

john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:

} Perhaps it's my radio background, but whenever I use a cellular phone,
} the thought never leaves my mind that the conversation is on the air
} and that at least someone else, not a party to the conversation, is
} listening. If the message is critically private, we move to landline.
} It's like breathing and eating. That's why this privacy flap is so
} funny. If you want to use the public airwaves for private
} communications, then it is up to you to encode them sufficiently to
} keep them private.

In Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger" one of the intelligence
gathering methods used was intercept of cellular phone conversations
by satellites. How real was this use in a fictional story? Is it
possible. I would assume it's picking up the cell transmitters, not
the 4 watt portables, but...


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