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Article: Telephone Scrambler
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Telephone Scrambler
A telephone scrambler encrypts phone conversations, keeping unauthorized users from tapping into or monitor calls with any success. Scrambling involves the encryption of data, using unique codes that render it possible only for authorized personnel to unscramble transmissions. In order for scrambling technology to work, it is necessary that both authorized participants in a conversation possess a scrambler/descrambler. Scramblers are available on the consumer market, but most of these are vastly inferior to the technology used by operatives of elite U.S. intelligence services.
In a phone scrambling system, information sent over a public switched telephone network, ...
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