[IP] more on re: The eBay-Skype deal is a blow to open standards
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 18, 2005 1:49:11 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: The eBay-Skype deal is a blow to open
standards
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[Note: This comment comes from reader Steve Schear. DLH]
From: Steve Schear <s.schear@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 18, 2005 10:18:15 AM PDT
To: dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] The eBay-Skype deal is a blow to open
standards
At 11:22 AM 9/17/2005, Dewayne Hendricks wrote:
Good commentary on the eBay-Skype deal: <http://
socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000923058521>. Worth
reading! Personally, I'm moving away from Skype to Gizmo <http://
www.gizmoproject.com/>. My Gizmo handle is 'wa8dzp'. See you there!
The reason I haven't gravitated to open standards is that all of
the services using them., AFAIK, don't offer any end-user
controlled privacy nor open source implementation for code exam.
(Please correct me of I'm wrong.). I agree with U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Brandeis (Olmstead v. United States ) that wiretaps are an
unwarranted and illegal invasion of the privacy of those not named
in court orders who call phones which are monitored.* Unless
crypto is end-to-end and open source for clients, forget it.
Also, the open standards-based services all seem to use centralized
server systems, and not the decentralized models of Skype, meaning
too easy to wiretap and traffic analysis.
Steve
* "Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have
become available to the government. Discovery and invention have
made it possible for the government, by means far more effective
than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of
what is whispered in the closet. Moreover, 'in the application of a
Constitution, our contemplation cannot be only of what has been,
but of what may be.' The progress of science in furnishing the
government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire
tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government,
without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in
court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most
intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and
related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs,
thoughts and emotions."
Later, after some of the types of invasion of privacy that Brandeis
envisioned became a reality, his dissent gradually evolved into one
of the most frequently cited opinions in Supreme Court rulings.
See, for example GRISWOLD v. CONNECTICUT, 381 U.S. 479 (1965);
ESTES v. TEXAS, 381 U.S. 532 (1965); MIRANDA v. ARIZONA, 384 U.S.
436 (1966); KATZ v. UNITED STATES, 389 U.S. 347 (1967); EISENSTADT
v. BAIRD, 405 U.S. 438 (1972); ROE v. WADE, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
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