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ITAR & NATO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed May 5 15:39:27 1999
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: cryptography@c2.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 21:49:58 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
[fwded here at the advice of someone respected....]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/01/169l-050199-idx.html
Serbs Listening In on Pilots:
Some Attacks Thwarted Because of Allied Jets' Unsecure Radio Gear
By Dana Priest, *The Washington Post*, 1 May 1999; Page A01
Yugoslav forces have apparently thwarted some NATO air attacks because
at times allied pilots speak to each other and to ground-based air
controllers over open communications systems, according to NATO
officials and U.S. intelligence reports ...
OOPS! It seems as if not all NATO members *have* interoperable
voice-encryption gear in their aircraft...
The RISK? Law of Unintended Consequences, maybe? Sometimes suppressing an
export market for 1979 reasons bites you on the backside in 1999...
Can PGPphone work on a CRM-114, maybe?
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