Chch snooper guard
An invention by Mr Joe Webb, of Christchurch, which is said to make it impossible for snoopers to break into computer lines, has passed tests and is ready to be launched on the international market. “It has passed all its engineering tests and it has done everything we have wanted it to do,” Mr Webb said.
Mr Webb, aged 63, a University of Canterbury electronic engineering lecturer, has signed a contract with Christchurchbased Cardinal Network. It is negotiating a marketing and manufacturing agreement with a United States computer-equip-
ment manufacturer. Cardinal Network’s chief executive, Mr Ken Stokes, says he hopes the device, a signal encryptor, will be worth billions, but he is waiting for final sales projections.
“It will definitely be worth quite a few million,” he said. “We have done many, many, tests on it and even the people who designed and built it have no idea how to break it. They don’t even know where to start.”
Signal encryption protects data or information from being listened to or intercepted.
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