Why "carnivore" type systems can't be (entirely) open source

[Owen Lewis]

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From: "David Hansen" <davidh@spidacom.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: 05 February 2001 10:03
Subject: Re: Why "carnivore" type systems can't be (entirely) open source


> On 5 Feb 2001, at 0:54, Owen Lewis wrote:
>
> > GSM has never been described as a 'secure system'.
>
> That's not my recollection of the hype at the time. ISTR it being
> described in terms like "fully secure". There were (presumably
> carefully planted) stories of intelligence agencies being concerned
> about it.

Whatever the press may have hyperboled, to the best of my knowlege, the
system was never sold as 'fully' secure'. Had it been so sold, the companies
are wide open to having the socks sues off them.

Owen