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Re: Electronic sweeping and debugging equiptments

#1399
From: Micha Berger
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1989 20:47
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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." 
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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
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