Italian Phone Taps Spur Encryption Use

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 30, 2007 @11:49PM from the what-is-the-frequency-kenneth dept.

manekineko2 writes "This article in the NYTimes discusses how a recent rash of high-profile mobile phone taps in Italy is spurring a rush toward software-encrypted phone conversations. Private conversations have been tapped and subsequently leaked to the media and have resulted in disclosures of sensitive takeover discussions, revelations regarding game-fixing in soccer, and the arrest of a prince on charges of providing prostitutes and illegal slot machines. An Italian investigative reporter stated that no one would ever discuss sensitive information on the phone now. As a result, encryption software for mobile phones has moved from the government and military worlds into the mainstream. Are GSM phones in the US ripe for a similar explosion in the use of freely available wiretapping technology, and could this finally be the impetus to for widespread use of software-encrypted communications?"

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Wooohooo! by mobby_6kl · 2007-05-01 00:04 · Score: 1, Funny

Hookers and blackjack! This prince guy must have one shiny ass.
Voice encryption made easy by Anonymous Coward · 2007-05-01 00:37 · Score: 3, Funny

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