From: "David E. Smith" <dsmith@midwest.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 95 18:43:47 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Motorola Secure Phone
Message-ID: <199512180304.VAA12327@cdale1.midwest.net>
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At 04:34 PM 12/15/95 -0800, you wrote:

>	My AT&T 900 (or is it 9000?) MHz digital cordless phone says
>the same thing. I figure it uses a weak cryptosystem. There is
>something about key setup when you return the handset to the base.
>	(The phone was $200, FWIW)

That just refers to the fact that it is no longer legal to sell
scanners that can listen in to that range.  The same is true
of the 800 MHz band (used for a lot of cellular phone traffic).
Ah, I love my really old scanner that isn't bound by such
limitations...  (BTW, a couple of years ago Nuts & Volts ran
an article with information on a program and some toys that let
a laptop computer, properly wired into a cell phone, act as a
cell scanner.  Never did wire it up, but it looked like fun ;)

ObCrypto: um, if you can find it, let me know :)


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