Rather, it is a direct result of the American government's attempts to ensure, two decades ago, that it could spy on the scrambled communications of foreigners.
From the clinical environment of Europol's Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce operations room, officers would use their scrambled communications to co-ordinate with those in the field, making arrests and seizing servers during the final stages of a six-month long investigation into underground sites used to sell drugs, guns and hitmen.
"I think there could be a real concern about the ability to fully share information because of the fear that the network that would undergird 5G in the UK, that there might be a vulnerability". GCHQ's Dr Levy, however, played down such fears saying that efforts to digitally scramble communications meant that even if someone was able to intercept them, they would only get "gobbledygook".
To the extent possible, I'm also encrypting what I do online, including using a VPN (virtual private network) that scrambles my communications from (most) potential adversaries.
Rescue workers scrambled to restore communications to towns and villages cut off by landslides, and other people were feared dead in those places.
Lynton said that, immediately after the attack came to light, his company scrambled to restore communications, digging out old phones and working out how to pay staff with paper cheques.
For more than two hours after the news broke, Trump had no official spokesman, as his army of communications aides scrambled to craft a plan.
After validity is ensured, a one-time-use session key is created and exchanged between the e-mail program and the server, and the subsequent communications are scrambled using that key.
Paging companies and other communications providers scrambled to restore service yesterday to the tens of millions of people nationwide whose electronic devices shut down late Tuesday because a satellite began rotating uncontrollably.
Suetonius tells us that Julius Caesar and Augustus would, in private communications, scramble the letters of words, according to a pattern, lest they be intercepted.
Deregulation in 1996 allowed new competition, and the proliferation of the Internet and other new technologies created a race in which communications companies have scrambled to get bigger.
