Phone tapping in italy causes scandal.

Had Prince Victor Emmanuel used a secure cellphone he could have saved himself the embarrassment and arrest regarding the allegations of providing prostitutes and dealing in illegal slot machines. Similarly Luciano Moggi (of the soccer game-fixing scandal fame) and Vice President Piero Fassino of the Democratic Left party (and his comments on a sensitive bank takeover) were nailed due to their negligent use of the mobile phone. A number of Italian politicians, businessmen, soccer players and coaches, showgirls and actors have had their personal conversations recorded by official or nubile detectives and then leaked to the press. The former head of Italy’s top spy agency, Nicolo Pollari, got a taste of his own medicine when transcripts of some of his conversations were leaked to the media. Stories like these have resulted in boom sales for companies like Caspertech, a four-year-old Turin Company that sells encrypted cellphone software. Earlier the clients were the government and the military but last year about 60 % of sales were credited to the common-man.

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