Re: [TSCM-L] Re: Fwd: [ISN] Why VOIP Needs Crypto

From: LuxFero <luxfe..._at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:24:01 -0700 (PDT)

It is being done already ... for example by Phil Zimmerman, who brought us PGP in the late 80s which eventually changed U.S. domestic and export encryption laws.

http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/zfone/index.html

d..._at_geer.org wrote:

kondrak writes:
>Bruce is right on on this one:
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70591-0.html
>
>By Bruce Schneier
>Apr, 06, 2006
>
>There are basically four ways to eavesdrop on a telephone call.
>...


My grandmother was a switchboard operator
in a small town. Back then, Bell Telephone
selected operators based on character of the
person -- literally questioning their virtue
and doing what today would be called a reference
check. Why? Operators were totally enabled
to eavesdrop. As I grew up on a party line
with live operators, meaning not only the
operator but also all the neighbors could
eavesdrop, I/we never trusted the phone at
all. This and the cost meant the phone was
used for important things, never for mere
conversation. I suspect that the 1928
Supreme Court decision that a wiretap was
not a violation of anything stemmed from the
fact that eavesdropping was inherent to the
phone system itself and thus the requirement
for a warrant would effectively have criminalized
my grandmother and everyone on my street.

--dan

[ our number was 1417, the underwear factory
where my dad worked was 628 ]

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