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Cell Phone Encryption?

Posted by Cliff on from the keeping-prying-ears-out-of-your-conversations dept.

Black Diamond asks: "I know I'm not up to speed on cell phone encryption, but I was wondering, are there any cell phones that let you handle the encryption from your end of things? Something along the lines of a phone you hook up to your computer to input specific encryption keys for specific contacts, as well as a private key for yourself. Is such a thing plausible, or should you trust the standard encryption that comes on some cell phones nowadays?"

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  1. Re:cheap answer by Morgon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am not sure about all that now..

    "Press 2 if you'd like to eavesdrop in Spanish"

    The US has become this unnecessarily multi-lingual culture. We waste more space, trees, metal (for signs), and TIME translating from the language these people SHOULD learn before moving to the US. As elitist as it may sound, English still IS the Universal language, and I'd be quite happy if I didn't waste 10 seconds of non-time listening to telephone instructions in Spanish when I call my bank.

    So I think they could find a way to figure out what you're saying, no matter what language.
    Plus, didn't AT&T (or someone) develop some prototype real-time translator? I wonder whatever happened to that thing..

    --Morgon

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    [DISCLAIMER: This post is a work of satire and should not be misconstrued as a holy text upon which to base a religion.]