-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When the strike first happened, my brother, who has cable, heard this Jaguar stuff on Fox, called me up about it. I told him then that lots of so-called "encrypted" telephony, like GSM, had big gaping holes, that something older than that probably didn't have a sufficient keysize to survive Moore's Law, and that they probably didn't *need* a back door. Also, I told him that just listening for enough undecipherable telephone traffic would give you sufficient impetus for a kinetic denial of service attack, and that that's what probably happened. Nothing I've heard since, here or elsewhere, dissuades me of any of the above. Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPpRrVcPxH8jf3ohaEQJ/zwCcDx4V3gdkEdm+uVO5Hb4GG0ud5NUAn2AL guk1CcEBdEXcCfDTG+ex7+/P =//Ud -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'