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From: donegan@stanton.UUCP (Steve Donegan)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.misc,sci.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Telephone privacy gadgets
Summary: Security
Keywords: Telephone, wiretap, bug, countermeasures, etc.
Message-ID: <6595@stanton.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 89 13:09:28 GMT
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Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca.
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There is no such thing as security. If a dedicated person/government etc.
wants to tap your house/phone/car/place of work etc. they can. No scrambler
system sold on the market today is capable of stopping a government from
snooping. The real question is - do you have something to hide that 'they'
want to know about? For most people that answer would be no. Are you a
simple law breaker - 'they' won't probably go to the effort to spy on you
anyway. If you really do have something to hide then I hope you're using
one-time codes and all the other goodies of spy technology if you want to
stay 'free'. If you're a business person, concerned about your trade secrets,
the best thing to do is only communicate in-person, via passed paper, which
would be burned and flushed with all concerned present. Sorry, after working
in security for a few years one does become a professional paranoiac.

-- 
Steven P. Donegan, Area Telecommunications Engineer, Western Digital Corp.
Western Digital is not responsible for my opinions.
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