23 December 1999 - cell phone security

Great news, digital cell phone callers! You can relax and trust your ever-loving service provider, because The New York Times is full of it. Reports that the secret GSM code was broken are, like Mark Twain's death, greatly exaggerated. In fact, only governments and large businesses can afford the equipment to listen in to your calls, and Mark Twain is alive.

Analog cell phone users, I'm sorry. Don't say anything bad about aunt Myrna, because she's probably listening.

give me a clue so sweet and true

the Daily Whale copyright 1999, 2003 Jay J.P. Scott <jay@satirist.org>