phone encryption technology becoming popular in Italy

[Steven M. Bellovin]

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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