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Cell Phones

NPR's John McChesney reports that a group of computer experts have succeeded in cracking the digital code that protects numbers transmitted over cellular telephone lines. These are not the first flaws found in cellular telphone security, but industry backers say that technology can address these issues, and that there are other layers of security that have not been cracked.

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