[UA] Our modern mobile world

[Doug Stalker]

Jorge Ferrao wrote:

> Other thing is that I remember a friend of mine mentioned that analogical
> phones are a lot harder to tap and detect than digital phones. And that the
> company he worked for was trying to convince a small number of people to
> trade their analogical mobile phones for digital, but they refused
> ferociously (and the word was that they had to be drug dealers since digital
> phones are superior to analogical phones in every other aspect).
> 

You can listen in to an analogue phone with a broad-band scanner
though.  With digital there is (weak) encyrption on the data, which
stops joe-average from listening in.  Don't expect it to help against
anyone with the proper equipment of acess to the exchange though.

 - Doug

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