On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:05:23AM -0400, Tim May wrote:
> At 2:00 AM -0400 4/5/00, Lucky Green wrote:
> >I am currently participating in specifications working groups focused on
> >next-generation digital mobile telephony. Cypherpunks will find some of the
> >new features coming to a mobile phone near you interesting: the subscriber's
> >telephony provider will be able to initiate outbound calls via a request
> >over SMS and even will be able to access the user's phone directory without
> >user approval or notification. Nobody at this meeting that I could identify
> >appears to be concerned in the slightest about the security implications of
> >this "feature". Their sole concern appears to be that the provider still
> >gets paid for such non-user initiated calls.
> >
> >Amazing...
>
> All of these other folks in these working groups...is there any way
> you can kill them all at one time, without yourself being in any
> danger?
Won't work. There's pretty much an endless supply of working
group fodder. If they run out of technical people, they send marketing
types who're even less concerned about privacy and security.
--
Eric Murray www.lne.com/~ericm ericm at the site lne.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5
