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phone encryption technology becoming popular in Italy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Apr 30 13:57:11 2007
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:23:25 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
According to an NY Times article
(http://news.com.com/Phone+taps+in+Italy+spur+rush+toward+encryption/2100-1029_3-6180118.html?tag=nefd.top),
phone encryption technology is becoming popular in Italy because of
many recent incidents of conversations being published. Sometimes, a
wiretap is being leaked; other times, it seems to be private behavior:
What has spurred encryption sales is not so much the legal
wiretapping authorized by Italian magistrates--though
information about those calls is also frequently leaked to the
press--but the widespread availability of wiretapping
technology over the Internet, which has created a growing pool
of amateur eavesdroppers. Those snoops have a ready market in
the Italian media for filched celebrity conversations.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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