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Article #4403Re: Australia next to ban PGP
From: Kevin Lentin
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:00
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Mr J Cameron (jcam2@mdw031.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote: > > Come on! Certainly a ban on cryptography is a stupid and unenforcable > law, but claiming that THEY are monitoring all our phone calls to check > if people are using encryption is absurb. I would guess that in the order > of 10,000,000 phone calls are made each day in Australia (note that this > is just a guess, and could be an order of magnitude different from the > real value). Apparently there are about 8,000,000 lines installed (from a Telstra employee) So it would seem that you are out by between 0.5 and 1 orders of magnitude. 50-100 million calls per day. But yes, LOTS! -- [==================================================================] [ Kevin Lentin |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\__/~\__/~\_| ] [ kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au |___/~\/~\_____/~\______/~\/~\__| ] [ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!' |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\____/~~\___| ] [==================================================================]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa7f6,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gidfa7f6,public X-Google-Thread: f5d9f,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d9f,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 12351c,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gid12351c,public X-Google-Thread: 112213,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gid112213,public X-Google-Thread: f4bcb,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bcb,public X-Google-Thread: 10726e,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gid10726e,public X-Google-Thread: fb57f,421de122abfcc7b X-Google-Attributes: gidfb57f,public From: kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin) Subject: Re: Australia next to ban PGP Date: 1995/08/15 Message-ID: <40p1o9$fp@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 108155968 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-user: kevinl references: <40f7pt$3jm$1@perth.DIALix.oz.au> <NEWTNews.28122.808392216.guyd@ausnet.world.net> <40mm5n$4h7@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> organization: Monash University newsgroups: sci.crypt,politics.datahighway,aus.politics,aus.org.efa,aus.org.acs,aus.net.policy,aus.net.news,aus.net.aarnet,aus.legal,aus.general,aus.flame,alt.security.pgp