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

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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