Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market

notshannon writes "Reuters reports about a new cell phone which automatically encrypts communications. Of course, the matching handset will decrypt the message. Security doesn't come cheap, around $4000 per pair, but it's probably as reliable as anyone in these parts could wish. Favorite quote: 'We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because we're the only ones who publish the source code,' said Rop Gonggrijp at Amsterdam-based NAH6. Amusingly, the article cites government.nl and not nsa.gov as the world's most prolific phone tapper."

Comments

Do what I do...

[Anonymous Coward]

Rather than pay $4K to encrypt your phone calls, do what I do: don't have anything worth saying

can you hear me now?

[Anonymous Coward]

that will become " ? nac uoy reah em won"

nah

[Dreadlord]

real /.ers don't use expensive encryption phones, they do the math themselves, and then encrypt signals by waving a magnet near the phone.

The Microsoft-based XDA handheld computer phone

[burgburgburg]

The Microsoft-based XDA handheld computer phone made by Taiwan's High Tech Computer is selling for 3,499 euros ($4,121) per two handsets.

Well, since Bill IS focusing so strongly on security, I feel comfortable relaying most personal, intimate, potentially volatile information over these phones.

I also wear my Social Security number on a t-shirt, yell out the numbers of my PIN at ATMs and throw my credit cards at little children as if they were candy.

no

[SweetAndSourJesus]

real slashdotters don't have anyone to call in the first place

Re:Available in U.S.?

[Realistic_Dragon]

Are these available in the U.S.? The last time encrypted cell phones made the news there were no plans of selling them in the U.S.

Amazon.com

People who brought these also purchased:
900Mhz GSM network to run them on. $1,000,000.