Voice crypto: the last crypto taboo

Tim May tcmay at got.net
Tue Aug 7 08:32:49 PDT 2001


On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 01:19 AM, Dr. Evil wrote:

>> I bought one, and I know of several others who have bought them. As to
>> whether they are _currently_ selling any models, I can't say. But this
>> doesn't change my "fax effect" point.
>
> I didn't realize they had ever sold them.  I have been checking their
> page fairly regularly for the past year and I never saw a link that
> said "where can I buy one of these", because I would have bought some.
> I have called to ask when I could buy one, and they always said, "in a
> few months", and now they don't answer the phone.  It looks like they
> are out of business now, or will be soon, which is unfortunate.
> You're lucky you got one, I guess.
>

Because of the fax effect, not so lucky. Few people to use it with.


>> Naive. Faxes were available in the 1970s, and earlier. They did not
>> "change the world overnight." For one thing, they were not accepted as
>> legal docs. For another, transmission speeds were too slow.
>
> Yes, I am well aware that faxes existed in the 1970s.  They existed in
> the 1920s, if you can imagine that.

You elided the part where I said "for nearly a century." The facsimile 
system is very old indeed.

> repetitious.  Maybe I should start a new list called realitypunks,
> which will have these rules:
>
> 1. No ad hominem attacks.
>
> 2. No anti-governemnt ranting.
>
> 3. A few select incoherent ranters would need to be kicked out for
>    causing excessive harm to the signal-to-noise ratio.
>
> 4. Let's focus on PR, marketing and psychology instead of technology,
>    legal debate, and confrontation.
>
> If a bunch of people are interested I'll create it.  If not, that's ok
> too.

Enjoy yourself.


--Tim May





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