they are illegal but many of the newer ones are still modifiable to listen in
on the cell phone frequencies (approx. 880 Mhz - 925 Mhz) but that varies by
area and provider but that's the general range that many analog cell phones
use. You can go to most pawn shops and find ones that would be able to pick
them up or even most ham radio shows and talk to almost any table and I
guarantee for $30 and asking the guy if he "knows how to modify it", you could
have a scanner capable of picking up any of the freqs with out the 'missing
freq. gap'. Though the practicality of an foreign army coming in and checking
pawn shops and ham radio shows aren't that likely, I was just proving that
finding scanners is still very possible in the US despite their illegality.
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"Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote:
> At 10:08 PM -0700 9/13/2000, Bram Cohen wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/09/10/stinwenws01007.html
> >>
> >> SOLDIERS are having to use insecure mobile phones to communicate in
> >> battlefield exercises because, they say, the army's radio
> >> communications system is so unreliable. Senior commanders be-lieve
> >> that the reliability of mobile phones outweighs the increased risk of
> >> conversations being intercepted.
>
> It is interesting to note that scanners capable of monitoring cell
> phone traffic are illegal in the US, making it hard for the Red team
> to go out and buy a unit at Radio Shack and use it to monitor the
> Black team's cell phone traffic. Such scanners are available
> overseas, at least for analog cell phones, so potential adversaries
> could get them. Of course, most US cell phones won't work in the rest
> of the world anyway.
>
> >
> >Wouldn't it be ironic if they resort to buying a bunch of stariums ...
> >
> >
> >-Bram Cohen
> >
> >[That would require that Stariums actually appear on the market at
> >some point. --Perry]
>
> A less ambitious project than Starium might be a line of cell phones
> with symmetric encryption. You could load the key the same way you
> store speed-dial numbers. Three 10-digt numbers would be more than
> enough. Several keys could easily be stored. Such phones would
> allow small groups to communicate in total secrecy with no additional
> infrastructure.
>
> Arnold Reinhold
>
> Arnold Reinhold
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