1994-02-15 - Re: Clipper and Traffic Analysis

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From: Peter Wayner <pcw@access.digex.net>
To: mnemonic@eff.org
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UTC Datetime: 1994-02-15 17:31:42 UTC
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From: Peter Wayner <pcw@access.digex.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 09:31:42 PST
To: mnemonic@eff.org
Subject: Re:  Clipper and Traffic Analysis
Message-ID: <199402151725.AA24527@access2.digex.net>
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I believe the LEAF field is useful, but not too useful.
Here are my points:

*) It helps in unauthorized taps. I would presume that the
police won't have access to the phone company's calling records
if they're just using a pair of alligator clips. 

*) On the other hand, the system really isn't anywhere near as
useful as the phone number of the person calling. There will
be no map between LEAF id numbers and people. Such a map would
quickly get out of date as people traded phones etc...

*) It might be slightly better than the phone number in
strange cases because it identifies the handset not the number.
Who knows? Phone calls from the garage extension mean one thing
but phones from the kitchen extension mean another. This might
be significantly more important if businesses private exchanges
don't release the internal extension making the call.






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