the wire

salon has another article on the bush bulge story:

Now a technical expert who designs and makes such devices for the U.S. military tells Salon that he believes the bulge is indeed a transceiver designed to receive electronic signals and transmit them to a hidden earpiece lodged in Bush's ear canal.

now i have no idea whether it really is a wire (which is why i haven't commented on the various bulge rumors that have spun across the internet over the past week). if it is, i wonder what the range of those transceivers is. wouldn't it be interesting if someone in the area had a police scanner? (the salon article notes the size of the rumple suggests that if there is a wire, it has "descrambling capability" but i assume that even scrambled transmissions sound like something. or am i wrong? could they be recorded and unscrambled later?)