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A comment on Cordless Telephones: Bye Bye Privacy (1991).

Re:Cordless Telephones: Bye Bye Privacy (1991) by ck2 on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:47PM (#11106644)
Yes but then a few years later cordless phones went digital which made it much harder than just using a scanner and then a couple years after that they went spread-spectrum which made it exponentially harder.

Today's version of this kind of spying on neighbors would be baby monitors.

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Re:Cordless Telephones: Bye Bye Privacy (1991) by xyzzy123 on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:43AM (#11108280)
There are actually lots of DECT phones which don't implement encryption, see e.g: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/31/dect_hack/

I've tried this with a DECT PCMCIA card, and could snoop maybe half of a stack of handsets I got off trademe. This is a few years ago though.

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