NYC events and cell phones

[Greg Rose]

At 06:56 PM 9/16/2001 -0400, t byfield wrote:
>jdyson at treachery.net (Thu 09/13/01 at 02:57 PM -0700):
>
> > > An interesting bit of information: on Tuesday afternoon, to the extend
> > > that cellphones operated, GSM encryption was turned off throughout
> > > Manhattan. My GSM phone would repeatedly warn me of this on every call I
> > > made (or tried to make). As of Wednesday morning, things were back to
> > > normal.
>
>however, a very limited sample did suggest that single-band (i.e.,
>domestic) phones were working while, side by side, 'world' phones
>weren't.

If terrorists were stupid enough to use cellphones, they'd likely use ones 
they could use at home, which means (unless they were South American or 
domestic or Korean) GSM. So, if someone was going to ask service providers 
to turn off encryption, I know which ones I'd start with...

Greg.

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