Electronic Weapons: February 23, 2002

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The growing popularity of wireless communications devices has produced a disastrous security situation. These items, including cell phones, PDAs and LANs, tend to have security that is easily compromised. Some security products are much better than others, and one can only hope that this is what the good guys are using. But wireless equipment like this is popular with terrorist and criminal organizations, who have been very erratic in their use of the most effective security software and hardware.