Anonymous phone calls (was: What is the EFF doing exactly?)
jim bell
jimbell at pacifier.com
Fri Sep 6 12:28:12 PDT 1996
At 10:08 AM 9/6/96 EST, jbugden at smtplink.alis.ca wrote:
>There is another spin possible on the reasons for replacement of pay phones with
>credit card phones. In Canada all new credit card phones are also able to take
>phone cards (which are anonymous).
Don't be too sure about the "anonymity" of these cards. You don't have to
give your name when you buy or use them, but assuming a large number of
phone calls (to, from different locations) can be associated together after
the fact, your name can probably be fairly easily obtained.
Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com
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