Dinesh Joshi wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, jtd [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is no privacy for anything that you send thru an intermediate service provider unless it is strongly encrypted. You think that MTNL/TATA/whoever cant snoop on your data / voice /sms. While there are established legal procedures for snooping on voice and snail mail (now quite nicely mangled in the name of fighting terrorism), in most countries including Inde there are afaik no rules about net data. In this case Google is getting it's finger into your data passing thru their services. But the nature of copyright laws are such that you could create hell for google if they attempt to misuse. Still no patch on automatically phoning the base ship WITHOUT you knowing. No, you're wrong. Theres no privacy with even encryption used today because quantum computing can break any known keys. Given sufficient time and effort any encryption can be broken. Time and effort are the Key terms here, encrypted data usually has a lifetime after which it is useless the question arises as to how meaningful it is decrypt the data of a million users at random just to snoop on them Quantum Computers are not yet a reality so we have a lot of time to develop better encryption methods and how about encryption of steganographic messages, but such a discussion may be off topic ;) Regards Surya References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
