From: sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 94 08:59:41 PDT
To: karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
Subject: Re: cypherpunks-digest V1 #18
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Could be an interesting basis for a class action negligence lawsuit.

Even if it was lost, it would become a factor in future business
plans.

> 
> >The purpose of a civilized society is precisely to avoid this sort of
> >``arms race'' between bandits and those who pay for services.  Even
> 
> This "arms race" would not have been necessary had the vendors and
> cellular carriers not been so short sighted as to not put meaningful
> cryptographic security into their system at the very beginning. All of
> the technology necessary to prevent the now-rampant snooping and
> replay of ESNs already existed in the early 1980s when AMPS was being
> deployed. It certainly exists now.
> 

sdw
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