Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone

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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What does this mean for eavesdropping?

[kneeslasher]

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.

Useless

[cerberusss]

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.

Can you hear me now??

[ghoul]

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