Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!uflorida!haven!adm!cmcl2!phri!cooper!dasys1!aj-mberg From: aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electronic sweeping and debugging equiptments Message-ID: <10630@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 4 Sep 89 20:47:02 GMT References: <6660@stiatl.UUCP> Reply-To: aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) Organization: Aspaklaria Publications / AishDas Society Lines: 15 John DeArmond (john@stiatl.UUCP) writes in article <6660@stiatl.UUCP>: >This CANNOT be done with sufficient reliability to bet your life on. >Especially when the adversary is the government that has control of the >switching equipment. Actually, this isn't strictly true. The phone company controls the switching equipment. How many criminals went free because the phone company claimed that it took a certain amount of time to trace a call? For decades they tried to hide the secret of their billing system that way. (Read this in an old Popular Electronics.) -- Micha Berger "Always should [the child of] Adam have awe of G-d in secret and in public, admit the truth, and speak truth in his heart."