July 10, 2003

Police Listen In on Mobile Phone Calls In Moscow

Techdirt Wireless reports "that at the request of the police and the Russian Federal Security Service, all mobile phone carriers in Moscow turned off all mobile phone encryption for approximately 24-hours, allowing police to eavesdrop on any phone calls they wanted".

The decision to shut down encryption followed the double suicide bombings that killed 14 people at the Krylya rock festival Saturday, according to The Moscow Times (see previous post in Textually.org, Cell phones trigger bombs).

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