[fwded here at the advice of someone respected....] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/01/169l-050199-idx.html Serbs Listening In on Pilots: Some Attacks Thwarted Because of Allied Jets' Unsecure Radio Gear By Dana Priest, *The Washington Post*, 1 May 1999; Page A01 Yugoslav forces have apparently thwarted some NATO air attacks because at times allied pilots speak to each other and to ground-based air controllers over open communications systems, according to NATO officials and U.S. intelligence reports ... OOPS! It seems as if not all NATO members *have* interoperable voice-encryption gear in their aircraft... The RISK? Law of Unintended Consequences, maybe? Sometimes suppressing an export market for 1979 reasons bites you on the backside in 1999... Can PGPphone work on a CRM-114, maybe? -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
