From: floyddb@alpha.c2.org
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 95 19:07:52 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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andr0id@midwest.net (Jason Rentz) wrote:

>>
>>Whats the current thinking on the security level of 900Mhz digital spread
>>sectrum cordless phones? Clearly it's not a basic scanner job but how much
>>more equipment is needed to monitor one ?
>
>Well when you listen into a spread spectrum conversation what you will hear
>is open squelch white noise.  The spread spectrum radios that I know about
>send information on several deffrent frequencies throughout the
>conversation.  

        [snip]

>                Dr0id
>
>
>( Computer Consulting & Management   )
>(P.O. Box 421  Cambria, IL 62915-0421)
>

        [snip]
        There is a company called Optoelectronics that markets a radio reciever 
         called the Interceptor.  This is a broad band (several hundred MHz) 
         device designed to lock on to the most powerful signal around,
         regardless of frequency.  As supplied, it only has a rubber duck 
         antenna, but a broadband, directional antenna (Log Periodic?) could be 
         attached.  There are AM and FM versions that output audio and a version
         called the Scout that controls a scanner.  These could have outboard 
         devices hung on to them to decode digital signals, record the 
         conversation ... all for less than $1000.

        

        Floyd D. Barber
        floyddb@alpha.c2.org
        Key fingerprint:
        8A 98 1F 6B 70 7A FE 24 
        35 D4 48 CF 9D F6 B0 91


        PS Sameer, thanks for the nym.