The killer app for encryption

Steve Schear s.schear at comcast.net
Thu Dec 18 22:31:34 PST 2003


At 07:57 PM 12/18/2003, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> > Because it means you can complete call to the POTs with no
> > company-controlled switch involved, meaning no where to serve a court
> > order.  Since the call could be routed through a few intermediate nodes 
> and
>
>I see.
>
>So, in the real world, X uses this to make telephone threats, your POTS gets
>picked up by random selection as the outgoing node, and gets traced back to
>from the victim's telephone, LEA visits you and you say ... "I know nothing".
>
>Yes, I can see it working and widely adopted.
>
>Looks like someone is pumping dumbing gas into cpunks homes.

I'd have no problem letting my phone be so used.  What's the difference 
between that and allowing unknown others using your WiFi?  It provides 
plausible deniability when you decide to do the calling yourself.

steve 





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