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Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the price-tags-that-probably-cause-physical-pain dept.

dponce80 writes "With concerns over privacy at an all-time high, it's refreshing to hear that Swiss company VectroTel is making a secure mobile phone. The X8 encrypts secure calls (the unit is also able to make regular calls) with a virtually unbreakable 128-bit key, itself generated through a Diffie-Hellman exchange. While transmission does get somewhat delayed, communication is secure."

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  1. What does this mean for eavesdropping? by kneeslasher · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean that Government agencies cannot listen to our oh-so-important phone calls? Typical. Millions if not billions of our tax money wasted if this technology becomes widely adopted.

    1. Re:What does this mean for eavesdropping? by Bromskloss · · Score: 3, Funny
      Millions if not billions of our tax money wasted if this technology becomes widely adopted.
      Which is of course better than both having spent all the money _and_ then getting harmed (spied on) by it.
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  2. Useless by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny
    While transmission does get somewhat delayed, communication is secure.

    This is of course useless for phone sex.

    Me: "So, what are you wearing?"
    Gf: "..."
    Me: "What are you wea*"
    Gf: "A hot small negli*"
    Me: "Sorry, please continue"
    (...)
    Gf: "A hot small neglige and nothing else"
    Me: "*grunt* and then?"
    (...)
    Gf: "I didn't hear you. What did you say after then?"
    Me: "Uh nothing, I was just asking, what do*"
    Gf: "Is this thing on? Oh wait now I hear you. Can you repeat?"
    Et cetera.

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    1. Re:Useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Anyone who uses communications interception and decryption for the sole purpose of listening to geeks having phone sex is punishing himself enough already :-(

      "Oh baby, compile me hard!"
      "Mount my hardware, yeah!"
      "I put on my wizard robe and hat..."

      Etc.

    2. Re:Useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or:

      GF calls.

      GF: Hi, could you..
      BF: Wait! Read the hash to me on the screen.
      GF: but..
      BF: someone might be doing a man-in-the-middle attack. just read the hash.
      GF: *sigh* [reads long string of numbers]
      BF: 8? did you say 8? not A?
      GF: No. AAY! Like APPLE.
      BF: Oh, phew.
      GF: *sigh*
      GF: now, could you pick up some milk?
      BF: okay.
      GF: *sigh* bye.

  3. Big question is by danceswithtrees · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it work with a foil hat?

  4. Can you hear me now?? by ghoul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Verizon Guy: Can you hear me now?
    NSA analyst: No

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    **Life is too short to be serious**
  5. Re:Cryptography? by mrogers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Like he said, a terrorist.

  6. President Logan must have one of these by payndz · · Score: 1, Funny
    How else could he make all those long cellphone calls to his fellow conspirators in which he openly admits to involvement in terrorist activities without somebody at NSA going, "Jeez, is that who I think it is?"

    Too bad it didn't protect him against his wife's secretary using a $30 digital recorder from Radio Shack to tape a conversation incriminating him in the assassination of a former president, but then, *everybody* was having a bad day.

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    You must think in Russian.
  7. Concerns over privacy at all time high? by ambrosen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really? I'm not aware of any particular events that are going on at the moment that would make people especially worrried about privacy.

  8. Re:Why not get one from cryptophone.de? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who or what is "em"?