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

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From: kondrak <kon..._at_phreaker.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:27:16 -0400

They also were ones of the last ones to work with black-boxing too....we hunted down the last remaining ones with great care, and when the last one disappeared (somewhere in bumsquat canada) we kissed the technique goodbye. :-D

At 15:15 4/7/2006, you wrote:

Another small tale: when I was at MIT in
the 1960s, the dorm phone system was naturally
a local creation and a marvel of cleverness
and ancient Strowger switches. Given this
discussion of eavesdropping, and the setting
of MIT, perhaps you can guess why hanging
around the switch on weekend nights was a
past-time for the privileged few. (Yes,
the microphone could be turned on with the
phone still on-hook.)

--dan

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