[2432] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Rivest's Wheat & Chaff - A crypto alternative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hayes)
Tue Mar 31 16:52:34 1998
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:42:55 -0600
To: Rick Smith <rsmith@securecomputing.com>,
David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Hayes <david.hayes@mci.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03007803b145a486e1b9@[172.17.1.150]>
At 02:01 PM 3/30/98 -0600, Rick Smith wrote:
>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?
About a year and a half ago, the Dallas, Texas school board was the subject
of a minority protest movement going by the name of The New Black Panthers.
The protest was the cause of considerable ugliness on the racially-divided
school board. One member of the board used his cell phone to discuss the
matter with a friend. The board member was very much less than politically
correct. He was also much less than security conscious -- his conversation
was caught on tape by a local resident with a scanner.
I believe in the end the board member had to resign. Regardless of the
merits of the protest, or the lack of propriety of the board member's
remarks, I'd say we have to count this as "damage" due to lack of crypto.
David Hayes, exercising the right of free typing on my own behalf.
david@hayes-family.org
