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Article: You can hear me now! Cell phone technology: curse or lifesaver?
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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GINGRICH AND HILTON, STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Ask any passerby with a cell phone in his or her ear what a cell phone, Newt Gingrich and Paris Hilton share in common. Most likely the conversation will turn to security. Cell phone security, that is. A few years back, someone just happened to have a scanner, with a recorder, and Newt happened to drive by right when he was saying the darndest things. Last year, Ms. Hilton's phone, or rather the database, was compromised by a couple of teenyboppers who immediately shared the misbegotten information about her high-roller friends with the world.
There is no evidence that Mr. Gingrich's name was in Hilton's database, ...