March 20, 1997 -- After New Gingrich's cellular telephone conversation was intercepted by a Florida couple earlier this year, wireless telephone users were reminded that their conversations can easily be heard by eavesdroppers. There was some hope, though, that newer digital cellular networks now being deployed would be harder to crack because they use a scrambler that can make a conversation incomprehensible.
But, as NPR's John McChesney reports from San Francisco, a team of computer security experts announced today that they had cracked a significant part of the code used by digital cellular telephones.

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