Re:Is Skype [dev'd outside of USA] exempt?
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VoIP Wiretapping
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OK, so if they -must- acquience, it's still
possible to fool the gov't interceptors, eg:
Feed phony pjone conversations through the
Skype system, eg, old movie clips or some
telephone based interviews (that clearly
cound like what they are).
Of course, content should be selected to
entertain the interceptors, so they don't
fall asleep on the job.;-)
Re:Is Skype [dev'd outside of USA] exempt?
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VoIP Wiretapping
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Point well taken...
Now, since Skype isn't making $'s on those
computer-to-computer calls, perhaps it could
be pursuaded to open the spec's to the part
of its P2P technology that supports them.
Eg, let us take those no-profit calls off
their hands & into our own (and, also,
onto our LANs, for the first time - a
big gap in Skype's current implementation
- ie, I'd like to use SKype on a LAN,
that's -NOT- connected to the Internet,
for a one-lead (LAN-only) -INTERNAL-
tel. system.)
Perhaps it's time that Skype opened up
a subset of its presently closed S/W?
(ie, just enough to enable computer-
to-computer & LAN-only tel comms.)
My 2 cents...;-)
Re:Is Skype [dev'd outside of USA] exempt?
on
VoIP Wiretapping
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· Score: 1
I think you're missing an important point...
Skype don't need no stinkin' phone numbers...;-)
(at least when talkin' computer-to-computer)
Is Skype [dev'd outside of USA] exempt?
on
VoIP Wiretapping
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Remember the "can't export crypto technology" era?
Those who did their crypto development outside USA
were exempt from the restriction (mostly), ie,
since they wouldn't have to export code in an
electronic form.
Perhaps software-only VoIP systems like Skype
will be exempt from the FCC's "must provide a
backdoor" ruling.
So, power lines are to become the antennas that
broadcast new interference that can make use of
the HF bands impossible for Radio Amateurs and
others, alike...
That's like creating large waves on all of the
bodies of water that amateur Sailors use for
their happy hobbies.
Who wants such intrusive & offensive technologies!?!
I - for one - wouldn't... Say NO to BPL (ie,
Broadband over Power Lines) - even for the
Japanese - ie, if it has to displace so many
happy, helpful, self-educating radio hobbyists.
Would YOU want to support such a technology?
"'not even if it helped the Space Program":Woody Allen
When Sweden switched to a new cel.tel. system,
their old phones were given to wheelchair users,
who could use them as 2-way communicators,
a bit like (high-reliability versions of) CB sets.
My idea (for using bits, only, from old analog
cel.tel's - in this case, mobile units) was to
use the handset as a handset for mobile Amateur
Radio gear, eg, when used in noisy locations.
A while before our present Open Source S/W
movement's growth, Ashton-Tate's powerful
one (many will recall their dBASE family)
saw Fox Software's FoxBASE public demo...
FoxBASE was faster [& may have had fewer
bugs, as well]. A-T would soon feel the
pinch, as users jumped ship to Fox S-W.
But first, a law suit arose, in which
Fox was claimed to have stolen A-T's IP.
From memory, it turned out that the
US gov't owned the IP, so A-T lost.
Fox continued to grow & improve, ie,
until acquired by M$. Soon after the
acquisition, Dr Dave left Fox S-W...
and FoxPro changed, not necessarily
for the better, I understand...?
PS: What's Dr Dave doing now? (And
what did he do after leaving M$ ?)
Ham Radio where int'l calls are cost-free!;-)
(ie, ignoring gear, power & license fees)
Voice:
- Slow-Scan TV (over HF radio)
- Fast-Scan TV (over UHF & above)
- HF (or even LF/MF?) radio
- VHF or UHF repeater near borders, eg,.us/.ca
- Internet-Linked RePeaters (ILRP)
- Remotely controlled HF/VHF/UHF radios (remote base)
- Amateur satellites
Voice & Data:
- multimedia/Internet over radio (eg, Icom'sd DSTAR ID-1)
Data ('cause not everyone can speak):
- Radio Teletype (RTTY)
- Messaging part of Amateur Packet/Position Reporting System (APRS)
- digipeater [again] near borders, eg, in Europe
- store & forward BBS systems (eg, FBB)
- Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) - aka "Moon-Bounce"
- various other ditigal modes (AmToR, PSK31, etc.)
Now, what have I forgotten, here...?
(Of course, CB radio calls can cross borders.)
PS Some will see this as "funny" or even OT,
but that's just a sign of how much some
have bought into the business-only model
of telecommunications...
... the idea is that not everybody would want
to move to Japan for a year or so...
Also, some can't get the work permit needed
to allow them to work as tutors, eg, due to
their age (only younger tutors get them).
So, Skype is a great way to let small
groups (or even one-on-one) tutoring
sessions go forward, with student(s) &
tutor in different lands.
Saves travel $$$'s - both for the big
airfare trips at the start & end of
the contract -and- each working day.
This might be a way for people with great
first-language speakers of English, who
happen to have a disability (eg, blind),
to get into the work force without a lot
of hoo-haw getting to Japan (or elsewhere).
Here's a place where technology finally
brings us benefits in the realm of tele-
commuting.
There's the APRS &/or Packet Radio related PC-Sat
(albeit by the students on the US Naval Academy)
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(Sorry about the earlier post... I hit
before , when trying to hop from Subject to
Cmment section... or did/. notice its empty
Comment section & [quite rightly] quash it?
'hope so...)
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OK, so if they -must- acquience, it's still
possible to fool the gov't interceptors, eg:
Feed phony pjone conversations through the
Skype system, eg, old movie clips or some
telephone based interviews (that clearly
cound like what they are).
Of course, content should be selected to
entertain the interceptors, so they don't
fall asleep on the job.
Point well taken...
Now, since Skype isn't making $'s on those
computer-to-computer calls, perhaps it could
be pursuaded to open the spec's to the part
of its P2P technology that supports them.
Eg, let us take those no-profit calls off
their hands & into our own (and, also,
onto our LANs, for the first time - a
big gap in Skype's current implementation
- ie, I'd like to use SKype on a LAN,
that's -NOT- connected to the Internet,
for a one-lead (LAN-only) -INTERNAL-
tel. system.)
Perhaps it's time that Skype opened up
a subset of its presently closed S/W?
(ie, just enough to enable computer-
to-computer & LAN-only tel comms.)
My 2 cents...
I think you're missing an important point...
Skype don't need no stinkin' phone numbers...
(at least when talkin' computer-to-computer)
Remember the "can't export crypto technology" era?
Those who did their crypto development outside USA
were exempt from the restriction (mostly), ie,
since they wouldn't have to export code in an
electronic form.
Perhaps software-only VoIP systems like Skype
will be exempt from the FCC's "must provide a
backdoor" ruling.
Has Skype made any statement on its position?
http://eXtremeProgramming.org/rules.html
& let them go from there to topics of interest
The radio named in the Subj has
10 watts of transmitter output,
even before antenna gain is ta-
ken into consideration
The repeaters should help handle
the uneven topography.
Next problem...
Great!
So, power lines are to become the antennas that
broadcast new interference that can make use of
the HF bands impossible for Radio Amateurs and
others, alike...
That's like creating large waves on all of the
bodies of water that amateur Sailors use for
their happy hobbies.
Who wants such intrusive & offensive technologies!?!
I - for one - wouldn't... Say NO to BPL (ie,
Broadband over Power Lines) - even for the
Japanese - ie, if it has to displace so many
happy, helpful, self-educating radio hobbyists.
Would YOU want to support such a technology?
"'not even if it helped the Space Program"
When Sweden switched to a new cel.tel. system,
their old phones were given to wheelchair users,
who could use them as 2-way communicators,
a bit like (high-reliability versions of) CB sets.
My idea (for using bits, only, from old analog
cel.tel's - in this case, mobile units) was to
use the handset as a handset for mobile Amateur
Radio gear, eg, when used in noisy locations.
'dunno, but I think MythBusters
just have just busted this myth...
Reporting (on Quirks & Quarks sci show)
success rates aproaching 90% from memory,
albeit with some side-effects.
The idea was to transplant islet cells
from a healthy person into the Type 1
sufferer.
People queued for the chance to join the
medical trials around the world.
Then came word that the transplants could
come from pigs, instead of human donors...
So, what's new...?
A while before our present Open Source S/W
movement's growth, Ashton-Tate's powerful
one (many will recall their dBASE family)
saw Fox Software's FoxBASE public demo...
FoxBASE was faster [& may have had fewer
bugs, as well]. A-T would soon feel the
pinch, as users jumped ship to Fox S-W.
But first, a law suit arose, in which
Fox was claimed to have stolen A-T's IP.
From memory, it turned out that the
US gov't owned the IP, so A-T lost.
Fox continued to grow & improve, ie,
until acquired by M$. Soon after the
acquisition, Dr Dave left Fox S-W...
and FoxPro changed, not necessarily
for the better, I understand...?
PS: What's Dr Dave doing now? (And
what did he do after leaving M$ ?)
In Sweden, a couple gets to -split- a year
of Family Leave (paid at 90% of the salary
of person taking it - on a particular day)
If the man doesn't participate in the 1st-
year's child minding (after the woman goes
back to work), they lose some of the bene-
fit.
A man almost -has- to look after the kids;
in Sweden, it's not really an option.
(The women wouldn't want it any other way,
nor would a Real Man(tm), either, I think)
I agree... consider the cool HTML-based
site:
http://eXtremeProgramming.org
- quite usable as slides in presentations
I find it to be one of the best ones
that still fits into 384 KB (zipped)
Latest version: 2005-02-28
TNC archived a lot of good talks by well
known people, or at least about interesting
issues or products (eg, in MP3 format).
Take that concept & fill a similar archive
with OSS, Linux, FreeBSD & OpenBSD stuff...
Then we all profit from those efforts...
even folks with big, open minds, who hap-
pen to live/work in very small towns...
"Thanks for exposing a hole in
-our- security.
We'll work hard to plug that hole
so that others won't be able to
crawl through it, in future."
I'm reminded of the Hacker Challenges
of other security conscious web sites.
Long-time shell-provider SDF used Linux
Now, it's a 64-bit version of NetBSD.
OpenBSD claims:
"Only one remote hole in the default install,
in more than 8 years!"
Why not start with a core built for security,
- ie, rather than one built for popularity?
My two cents...
Ham Radio where int'l calls are cost-free!
(ie, ignoring gear, power & license fees)
Voice:
- Slow-Scan TV (over HF radio)
- Fast-Scan TV (over UHF & above)
- HF (or even LF/MF?) radio
- VHF or UHF repeater near borders, eg,
- Internet-Linked RePeaters (ILRP)
- Remotely controlled HF/VHF/UHF radios (remote base)
- Amateur satellites
Voice & Data:
- multimedia/Internet over radio (eg, Icom'sd DSTAR ID-1)
Data ('cause not everyone can speak):
- Radio Teletype (RTTY)
- Messaging part of Amateur Packet/Position Reporting System (APRS)
- digipeater [again] near borders, eg, in Europe
- store & forward BBS systems (eg, FBB)
- Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) - aka "Moon-Bounce"
- various other ditigal modes (AmToR, PSK31, etc.)
Now, what have I forgotten, here...?
(Of course, CB radio calls can cross borders.)
PS Some will see this as "funny" or even OT,
but that's just a sign of how much some
have bought into the business-only model
of telecommunications...
(I'd not want to see a similar product
being advertised under tha same image.)
Do we have a lawyer in the audience?
Re-inventing the wheel at tax-payers' expense
is not my idea of frugal gov't use of tax $'s
I'd have jumped on the Skype bandwagon; it rocks for free!
Isn't that the name of a plug-in I just added to Opera,
so I can see zoomable maps of licensed transmitter-
sites (also showing nearby sites) at:
http://www.ACA.gov.au
(Choose "Registers" => "Radcomm licenses" from
the left-hand menu.)
It's a nice application of SVG, that lets folks
search for [licensed] sources of RF interference,
in/near their own back yards.
to move to Japan for a year or so...
Also, some can't get the work permit needed
to allow them to work as tutors, eg, due to
their age (only younger tutors get them).
So, Skype is a great way to let small
groups (or even one-on-one) tutoring
sessions go forward, with student(s) &
tutor in different lands.
Saves travel $$$'s - both for the big
airfare trips at the start & end of
the contract -and- each working day.
This might be a way for people with great
first-language speakers of English, who
happen to have a disability (eg, blind),
to get into the work force without a lot
of hoo-haw getting to Japan (or elsewhere).
Here's a place where technology finally
brings us benefits in the realm of tele-
commuting.
'bout time...
Multiple licensing is always possible.
Eg, if Hardware cost + Linux-based Software costs = 100,
are they adding 100 to the sum...?
Or just the cost of the Linux-based software
(presumably including Op Sys cost)?
And - Hey! _ Where is it written that one can't
sell OSS?!?
Consider SuSE's model & income from OSS, for one.
After due safety considerations, let there be a
world-class engineering / contruction project
to put an effective filter into place here.
There's the APRS &/or Packet Radio related PC-Sat
(albeit by the students on the US Naval Academy)
---
(Sorry about the earlier post... I hit
before , when trying to hop from Subject to
Cmment section... or did
Comment section & [quite rightly] quash it?
'hope so...)