In article < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (bill nelson) writes: | This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (James Van Houten) writes: | : From what has been posted so far, there is no encryption on the Tropez. | : As such, it is questionable whether it is worth the extra bucks to buy | : one. The digital transmissions between handset and _base_ would be some | : advantage - for clarity of weak signals. | : | : Bill | : | : I own and sell the Tropez 900DX phones.  I have tried to monitor the phone | : using my PRO-2006 scanner and my freq counter.  Even once I located the | : phone I was unable to get my scanner to even open the squelch on the freq | : it was one.  I thought this was very interesting.  While tuned to the freq | : I hit the off button on the phone and there was a very slight change in | : the white noise.  Pretty hard to detect.  I think the Tropez is one of the | : best phones for the $$. | | Yep - you wouldn't be able to receive spread spectrum with a regular | scanner - the channel switching is too slow - even if you know the | algorythm.  It would require a programable SS receiver. Even that would | be useless, unless the phone used a repeating direct sequence pattern | for channel selection. | | Bill Thats what I thought and when my scanner would refuse to break squelch, I thought I had verified that it uses spread spectrum.  But, when I asked one of the tech people, they swore that they knew what I was talking about (spread spectrum) and that they did NOT use it.  Maybe they were mistaken. Larry

As such, it is questionable whether it is worth the extra bucks to buy one.  The digital transmissions between handset and _base_ would be some advantage - for clarity of weak signals. Whether it's worth the extra bucks is up to you, but realistically, I don't see anyone but the super-determined person/pro that is specifically after YOU eavesdropping on this phone.  If someone is determined and able enough to successfully intercept the Tropez, they can just as well tap your phone line (frighteningly easy), bug you, steal your mail, go through your trash, follow you around, etc.  If that's the case, you've got problems such that a secure cordless phone should be the least of your worries. As I see it, digital cordless is only for discouraging the casual eavesdropper.  Get an encrypted unit, and if I wanted hear what you were saying bad enough, I'd climb a telephone pole or tap into your junction box.  I find the paranoia level in some people both surprising and amusing

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (Adrian Brandt) writes: : : As I see it, digital cordless is only for discouraging the casual : eavesdropper.  Get an encrypted unit, and if I wanted hear what you : were saying bad enough, I'd climb a telephone pole or tap into your : junction box.  I find the paranoia level in some people both : surprising and amusing