INTELLIGENCE agencies won’t have any trouble working out how to snoop
unnoticed on satellite phone calls. The information has just been published in
patents filed by Motorola in the US and Europe.
Motorola developed the first cellphone system more than 20 years ago, along
with the exchanges that connect standard cellphones to the public telephone
network. It then went on to develop satellite telephone technology for the
Iridium and Teledesic services.
To stress the value of the ideas in its patents, Motorola first explains how
the security services eavesdrop on conventional cellphone calls: snoopers set up
a monitoring station at…
