Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Electronic sweeping and debugging equiptments Message-ID: <1989Sep6.020353.5800@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <6660@stiatl.UUCP> <10630@dasys1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 02:03:53 GMT In article <10630@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes: >>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... Except in a handful of Western countries -- I think the US, parts of Canada, and the UK are the entire list -- the two are one and the same. Most places, the Post Office runs the phone system and there is no distinct "phone company". -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu