Article 17194 (12 more + 1 Marked to return) in comp.org.eff.talk: From: JHIUOT&)@p918.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (JHIUOT&)) Subject: Clipper poll Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 12:00:09 PDT Organization: FidoNet node 1:109/70.918 - No Montgomery Co Ba, Rockville MD Lines: 14 Communications Week magazine has a weekly telephone response poll. This week's question is: Do you agree with the Clinton administration's Public Encryption Management dire ctive for communications equipment? Yes: 800-242-CWKY No: 800-242-CWKN -- uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!109!70.918!JHIUOT&) Internet: JHIUOT&)@p918.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Of course, only Americans can dial those numbers.. which is a shame... (A few Canadians could have skewed the voting... :-) On a note similar to remailers, has anyone ever given consideration to creating an "outdial" service? If I could dial long distance into the States, and then be able to dial a 1-800 number that I cannot dial direct from Canada (which is most) this would extremely useful... Could be taken a step further, and with automated billing a person could dial *any* number and charge it back to their calling card (though this would not be fully anonymous, is there a use for this?? I donno... as Caller ID becomes more prevalent... maybe...) I know law enforcement agents use something like this for undercover operations, though I doubt they figure in a long distance factor very often... Anyway, something to think about... --- Nick MacDonald | NMD on IRC i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger On Fri, 30 Apr 1993, Mike Godwin wrote:
Communications Week magazine has a weekly telephone response poll.
This week's question is:
Do you agree with the Clinton administration's Public Encryption Management directive for communications equipment?
Yes: 800-242-CWKY No: 800-242-CWKN
On a note similar to remailers, has anyone ever given consideration to creating an "outdial" service? [a redialer operation for telephones]
I've been wanting to do this for years. As soon as we get a digital coin system running, I'm going to work on getting one up in Berkeley. There are some interesting issues here similar to remailers. Fancy schemes tend not to be all that secure because the in-band audio signalling is not conducive to crypto. Just having the redirection service is enough now to disrupt Caller-ID. When ISDN is standard, you can you the money transaction on the D channel, out of band, and digital. Eric
On a note similar to remailers, has anyone ever given consideration to creating an "outdial" service? If I could dial long distance into the States, and then be able to dial a 1-800 number that I cannot dial direct from Canada (which is most) this would extremely useful...
In fact there used to be just such a number 206 945-2111 which some kind soul in the state of Washington made available for Canadians who wanted to call US numbers. It gave a dial tone and you dialed the 800 number...no charge. You're right, *someone* should do that again, it was sure handy. (That number is now out of service.) A related question, is there some way to find the identity of an 800 number holder, e.g. like a reverse phone directory? -- Dr. Tom Keenan, I.S.P. Associate Dean, R&D, Faculty of Cont. Ed. University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 CANADA (403) 220-4715 (voice) (403) 284-5702 (fax) keenan@acs.ucalgary.ca (email)
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Tom Keenan