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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 23:53:16 -0800
- From: henry@ads.com (Henry Mensch)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Risks Of Cellular Speech
- Reply-To: henry@ads.com
- Message-ID: <telecom12.846.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 846, Message 11 of 13
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-
- Frank Vance <airgun!fvance@uunet.UU.NET> wrote:
-
- > 1. First of all, why did the various cellular providers make promises
- > of "safe and secure communications" when they knew anybody with a
- > little money could buy a receiver to listen in?
-
- Money. It wouldn't sell if they couldn't say these things, and it was
- easier to fib than to do anything about it.
-
- > 2. Why, instead of fixing the technical deficiencies in their product
- > do they go sniveling to Congress to make it illegal to listen (as if
- > they are ever going to be able to enforce it)?
-
- Money; it's cheaper to buy Congress than to retrofit every phone in
- the field.
-
- > 3. Why in the world did our government accept the snivelling and pass
- > the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, instead of telling the
- > cellular providers to go fix their own problems?
-
- They were just doing the job the cellular phone companies paid them to
- do.
-
- Am I being too pessimistic?
-
-
- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Pessimistic? Not at all, Henry. The US Congress is
- just as easily bribed as a judge in Chicago; only the rates are a
- little higher since the 'territory covered' is greater. PAT]
-
-