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Re: Wifi SIP WPA/PSK Support

  • From: Crist Clark
  • Date: Thu Jan 26 14:38:03 2006 
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.
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Crist J. Clark                               [email protected]
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