I think it was Bill Simpson who wrote:
> I've advocated for a half dozen years now that we approach some mass
> commercial vendor of wireless phones (say vtech or conair) and ask
> to add security code. These phones are all digital spread spectrum,
> yet connect to normal analog lines. No reasons why the security
> couldn't be end-to-end.
Lots of reasons. The base unit of those phones has a D-A
converter, and talks to the analog network. The digital part is only
for the over-the-air connection. And even that is not mandatory; you
can do spread-spectrum and still have analog modulation.
/ji, anxiously waiting for his Starium phones.
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