L-3 Communications developing SME-PED secure wireless handheld
By Barb Dybwad 
posted September 16th 2005 8:30AM
posted September 16th 2005 8:30AM
L-3 Communications has won a contract to develop this ultra-secure handheld device called the Secure Mobile Environment - Portable Electronic Device (SME-PED — doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?). Apparently it's gonna cost them about $36 million to do it, too. The secure wireless handheld will have PDA functions as well as providing users with highly secure voice and data channels to enable communications between operatives working at the Top Secret level. The prototype pictured at right sorta looks like a very Eastern Bloc-flavored version of the Treo 650 — because in Soviet Russia, handhelds hold you!
i hope for them they make the pda look like any other pda, otherwise it would be fun spotting these so called secret operatives.
because in Soviet Russia, handhelds hold you!
hahahaha great comment...
SME-PED? We HATES the name!
- NO! We LOVES the name! -
I go to school in DC and I'd love to be able to tell who the government people are. There are a lot of bad attempts to be subtle in security (i.e. a minivan with fairly obvious emergency lights behind the grill idleing outside). I'm sure there are even more successful undercover security measures that I just don't notice.