Anti-Wiretapping Service for the Masses

This will probably mean the end of all mobile voice call snoopers careers but, as long as it works, I bet everyone that has to make important voice calls and talk about secret or very sensitive information will surely want a piece of it.

This new type of mobile service will be launched in Korea by SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom, will get the name of Private Long Code and, as far as the word goes until now, it will be available on any mobile phone.

This probably means that if Mr. Park from the restaurant calls Mr. Kim from the butchery around the corner and places a command of, let's say, an indefinite number of kilos of meat they will be the only ones to know about it because now their call will automatically be digitally encrypted by their wireless carriers.

There are other more serious situations when such an anti-eavesdropping system can prove very handy and the examples are many.

Probably, some of the people that might be the first to take a bite of the new service will be politicians, company CEOs, public officials and supposedly a couple of journalists with an enhanced fear of being snooped by concurrent fellows from other publications (or websites).

For now, the price of this technology has been rumored to be somewhere between 1.60 $ and 2.13 $ and unfortunately, there are no hints about how these rates will get applied: as a monthly fee or as a per-call rate.

I will definitely go for the former one because as most new services of this kind, the price won't be that low if you want to assure the security of your call.

Until the official launch of this service, the Koreans will have to wait for the approval of their Ministry of Information and Communication and the rest of us will still have to imagine how it is to talk with somebody on the phone with no fear of getting your call recorded by some meddling agent working for some national security agency.