Wow, it's been a long time since I've updated this thing. Hopefully I'll be less busy in the future.
Bruce Schneier had a really interesting story:
Nobody Encrypts their Phone Calls
I'm not very surprised by this. Encrypting phone calls is hard (even if you know what you're doing), which I suspect puts folks into two buckets
1) People who don't understand their phone calls can and probably are being recorded
2) People smart enough to not use the phone
The really scary thing though is this quote:
In 2009, encryption was encountered during one state wiretap, but did not prevent officials from obtaining the plain text of the communications,
The question to think about now, is how did they get a transcript? (I suspect it was from a different remote listening device that wasn't a telephone)
