[2397] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Rivest's Wheat & Chaff - A crypto alternative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Mar 30 15:52:42 1998
To: Rick Smith <rsmith@securecomputing.com>
cc: David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:01:29 CST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:42:36 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Rick Smith writes:
> >But here's one you might not have heard before: cellphone privacy.
>
> There is exactly *one* celebrated case in which a breach of cell phone
> privacy caused something akin to "damage," and that was the Newt Gingrich
> case. Do we know of any others?
The British royals have been embarassed by this, of course. Didn't
the "squidgy" nickname for Camilla Parker-Bowles come out because
Prince Charles was silly enough to use a cellphone?
On the more serious side, it is very likely that there have been
numerous instances of industrial espionage conducted this way. Its far
too tempting a tool not to use. My own experiences with security lead
me to believe that victims generally cover up abuse in the rare event
that they discover it.
Perry
