On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:41, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > A regular phone line is a *lot* more private than the internet. That may well be the case in certain European countries which have had the experience of a central government going off the rails. However, here in NZ it all depends on how you define privacy. Your regular POTS line is _not_ at all private from the Police. They have an anytime dial-in back-door to any phone they want. Whether, or not, that is a desirable state of affairs is open to debate. imho, it is not. We should learn from history.
> It also > falls under solid privacy legislation and your telco can't sell the > information collected from your phone calls. No, but they can and have made the connection between my number and my address available to the taxi company. I'm sure they didn't do it for free. > This is not the case where > you make your calls via a blackbox piece of software and one other > indvidual. While it's now discontinued in its original form, Speaking-Freely over its encrypted channel is _infinitely_ more secure than a standard POTS. Traffic analysis is possible, but content interception is _very_ difficult indeed, so much so that I'd say practically impossible unless you have the resources of the NSA & CIA combined. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
