[88251] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wifi SIP WPA/PSK Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Thu Jan 26 14:36:48 2006
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:31:52 -0800
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0601252009120.15751-100000@ruby.he.net>
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: crist.clark@globalstar.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Mike Leber wrote:
[snip]
> I've had a few people say that there was some sort of conspiracy to keep
> US citizens from using secure phones, however I found that laughable
> because
[snip]
Because domestically the US gov't (or local LEOs) can just intercept the
calls when they hit the PSTN. They don't bother intercepting between the
phone and its access point.
Now, whether there are LEOs pushing against end-to-end encryption
becoming widely available to consumers is a whole separate issue.
--
Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
