[2554] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Position escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Wed Apr 22 10:02:08 1998
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Cc: die@die.com, cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:08:31 EDT."
<199804212208.PAA22084@servo.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:01:32 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
This is a really difficult issue.
And how.
How does this interact with phones whose
access (telephone) number is non-unique?
Could where I am calling from be divorced
from what instrument I am using to call?
Is there a parallel between smearing the
signal over a spectrum of radio frequencies
and smearing the identifying information
over a spectrum of numbers? Could calls
to 911 carry no phone number but just
"here I am" information -- a panic button
function, in other words?
I imagine I sound like someone calling in
to an ASK THE EXPERTS radio show...
--dan
