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

[Roland Perry]

In article <002b01c0927f$f35af420$3e0a989e@eloka>, Owen Lewis
<oml@eloka.demon.co.uk> writes
>At the outset, GSM had two
>marked advantages and one disadvantage vs TACS:
>
>        -    It gave privacy and much better security against fraud.
>
>        -    It was more prone to comms loss.

I agree about the comms loss, but it had two other advantages:

- You could make a call if there was coverage - Analogue was saturated
in many places.

- You could do CLI and data (either SMS or modem) - and early adopters
like things like that.
-- 
Roland Perry