Has there been any hubbub about the new "safe" digital
services (phone & pager) that are now being offered?
Sprint Spectrum is the name in the WDC area. I do not
know if other areas have similar offerings...
-Mike
At 12:40 PM 8/28/97 -0400, morrow .
long @
yale .
edu wrote:
>With all of the current talk on the list about logging and syslog...
>be aware that pager messages (at least those currently sent today)
>have little privacy: they are not encrypted when sent, they are
>often misdirected (I've received the wrong pager messages -- both
>phone #s and alphanumeric) and there are apparently people who can
>listen in on them...
>
>An AP story out of NYC today reported that 3 employees of a small Fort
>Lee NJ news gathering service (BNN - Breaking News Network) were indicted
>yesterday under Federal law (using the ECPA, mail fraud and conspiracy
>statutes) for illegally intercepting pager msgs meant for top officials
>and police in NYC.
>
>Apparently the NYPD has been using alphanumeric pagers for msgs
>which were too confidential to transmit over the police radio band
>( In some communities I've heard of police acquiring cellphones for
>officers because of all of the active police scanners out there ).
>
>In NYC US Atty Mary Jo White warned that pagers and cellphones are
>not as secure as landlines for transmitting information which should
>be kept secret (police information which was eavesdropped on reportedly
>provided the names and locations of top officials, crime witnesses,
>force mobilizations and wounded police officers).
>
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