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To: Starowl who wrote (58315)1/16/2001 6:55:55 PM
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I didn't mean to imply that the Iridium contract wasn't with the DOD - but the encryption element made me surmise that the primary goal was black ops type communication - spook stuff. I guess plain vanilla national defense needs encryption, too.

Maybe I just hate to give up on a pet theory of mine. I kind of figured, after Motorola kept Iridium going for such a long time, that there was a user somewhere but the user was keeping a low profile, so that said spook to me.
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