Scrambler prevents cell phone leakage from Sistine
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:26 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...npopecellphones
A system has been set up to scramble any cellphone communications between the Sistine Chapel and the outside world during the secret conclave that will elect the next pope, the Vatican said.
The step is an extra precaution, since cardinals as well as Vatican personnel from medical staff to elevator operators have been sworn to secrecy ahead of the conclave, which is to begin Monday.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told a news conference that journalists would be able to verify for themselves, during a press visit later Saturday to the Sistine Chapel, that their cellphones will not work.
The late Pope John Paul II's 1996 apostolic constitution calls on authorities to "be especially vigilant in ensuring that there is absoultely no violation of secrecy with regard to the events occurring in the Sistine Chapel, where the voting takes place, and in the adjacent areas before, as well as during and after the voting."
It refers specifically to "audiovisual equipment for recording or transmitting."
Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1971, old post ID:29166
A system has been set up to scramble any cellphone communications between the Sistine Chapel and the outside world during the secret conclave that will elect the next pope, the Vatican said.
The step is an extra precaution, since cardinals as well as Vatican personnel from medical staff to elevator operators have been sworn to secrecy ahead of the conclave, which is to begin Monday.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told a news conference that journalists would be able to verify for themselves, during a press visit later Saturday to the Sistine Chapel, that their cellphones will not work.
The late Pope John Paul II's 1996 apostolic constitution calls on authorities to "be especially vigilant in ensuring that there is absoultely no violation of secrecy with regard to the events occurring in the Sistine Chapel, where the voting takes place, and in the adjacent areas before, as well as during and after the voting."
It refers specifically to "audiovisual equipment for recording or transmitting."
Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1971, old post ID:29166