$400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

Wed Aug 14 22:52:06 UTC 2002

At 1:09 PM -0700 2002/08/14, Scott Granados wrote:

>  As I recall and definitely don't quote me on this:) but there are also
>  grids of wires in the walls which release broadspectrum noise electronic
>  noise for jamming small transmitters.

	I'm sure that they have all sorts of methods.  On the other hand, 
cellphones make devilishly difficult "bugs" to eliminate, especially 
the ones that are capable of automatically answering the call and 
activating the microphone without any audible ring.  You can't just 
block all cellphones, because many people carry pagers that work on 
the same frequencies, and many people carry cellphones that they 
depend on.

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>  also strikes me that the pentagon is not going to have many interesting
>  conversations in there not nearly as interesting as some other locations
>  I won't list here.

	Oh, I don't know.  There are the briefing rooms with direct links 
to the whitehouse and other facilities.  There's the NMCC itself, as 
well as the OSD-CC (which had even tighter security than I ever saw 
in the NMCC).

	During Desert Shield/Desert Storm, the Chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs had a regularly scheduled morning briefing every day, and it 
always started right on time and occasionally ran a little over.

	Since I'm sure that the Chairman still has an office in the 
building, there are probably similar things that continue to occur 
today.


	OTOH, there are definitely other places that probably have much 
more sensitive conversations that frequently go on.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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