email Crypto- third party

[Michael Bacon]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Donald Ramsbottom [mailto:donald@ramsbottom.co.uk]
>Sent: 02 August 1999 16:11
>To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: email Crypto- third party
>>
>>the main insecurity would be in the dialling [a human may send it >>to the
>>wrong place - hence those disclaimers on the cover sheet which >>attempt
>>to put people on notice of the confidential nature of the >>contents].
>>
>True, but Go online to virtually any security store to get devices >to
"tap"
>lines and the bodies concerned even give you the number.
>
The interception and interpretation of telefaxes is essentially trivial.  In
1987 I demonstrated (to a conference of telecommunications managers) a
system for which the components cost less that GBP10 (and the plastic box
was one of the most expensive!).  The managers were astonished (and I guess
may well still be 12 years later).

Streaky
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