IP: Startup company promises complete telephone privacy

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
>
> [I am back in DC after spending an absolutely divine four days in Monterey. We
> went sea kayaking around Monterey Bay then drove down along the coast through
> Big Sur to Hearst Castle. Stayed at the Ventana Spa and relaxed. Coming
> back to
> DC's summer swelter yesterday evening was not a pleasant experience. --Declan]
>
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21236.html
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>                      Starium Promises Phone Privacy
>                      by Declan McCullagh 
>
>                      3:00 a.m.  12.Aug.99.PDT
>                      MONTEREY, California -- The sleepy
>                      coastal town of Monterey, California, is
>                      not the kind of place where vision-fired
>                      entrepreneurs come to change the world.
>                      Monterey Bay is better known for sea
>                      lions than silicon, and for Cannery Row --
>                      made famous half a century ago in John
>                      Steinbeck's gritty, eponymous novel. 
>
>                      Today, the third floor of a converted
>                      sardine factory on Cannery Row is home
>                      to a startup company developing what
>                      could become a new world standard in
>                      privacy protection. By early 2000,
>                      Starium Inc. plans to begin selling
>                      sub-US$100 telephone scrambling devices
>                      so powerful that even the US
>                      government's most muscular
>                      supercomputers can't eavesdrop on
>                      wiretapped conversations. 
>
>                      [....]
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