RADIO-TELEPHONE TALKS
PRESERVING PRIVACY Radio-telephone conversations between New Zealand and Australia or Great Britain are carried on at present under no guarantee of privacy. Inadvertently or otherwise, owners of shortwave receiving apparatus may bo able to tap the conversation. Although ownors of short-wave stations are pledged not to divulge any information thus received, there is always the possibility of eavesdropping by the owners of all-wave sets. However, the present conditions will he altered soon and the conversations will bo carried on in secret. The director of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. G. McNamara, stntcs that about a year ago apparatus was ordered which would "scramble" the conversations so that it would be impossible for any private listener to overhear them. The apparatus is already installed in England and in Australia, and that for use in New Zealand was expected to arrive at an early date, within the next month or two.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 14
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152RADIO-TELEPHONE TALKS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 14
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