[IP] Re: Telecom Amnesty would forever foreclose investigation of vital issues

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
Date: October 24, 2007 1:29:56 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Telecom Amnesty would forever foreclose  
investigation of vital issues

What's wrong with being "patriotic" and making lots of money, too?   
Making money in a free market is what defines America, isn't it?   
(well, at least if you believe in the right scripture).

The only error is by the customers of the phone companies, who  
naively assume that the phone company is NOT spying on their bits,  
their call records, or tracking and sharing their location whenever  
there is money to be made.

Phone companies are just for-profit crackers by another name, for  
hire by various governments and large companies.

We've known about this security risk for decades.  Yet the CVE  
database has no entry for the phone company man-in-the-middle  
attack.  It should, and customers should patch their systems, and  
install encryption.

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