Re: [Ekiga-list] Zphone

["J. Paul Bissonnette" <jpaulb eastlink ca>]

Or the US of A where the Patriot requires all US companies no matter 
which country they operate in to supply on demand all info they have 
about their customers.  At same time the company is forbidden to inform 
customers that this info was requested.

I'm glad I left Germany; however living in Canada is becoming just as 
bad with the G.W Bush clone as prime minister.

Lets not get political now, we are being listen in, by the CSIS, CIA, 
NSA, BND,MI5 -9, HLS, and possibly my mother-in-law. :-D

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > I strongly WELCOME ZRTP support in ALL VoIP apps, including this one.
> >     
> It
>   
> > is
> > just taking a long, long time.
> >     
>
>
> So I do, too.
>
> In Europe all communication providers (ISPs, VSPs, SMS, Email, ...) must
> store connection data (IP, Phone number, timestamps, etc) of connection
> source and target for at least six month. All german international calls
> are parsed for keywords automatically.
>
> And you have commercial interests. Selling user profiles is quite a good
> business in these days. So why not adding adds personalized by keywords
> parsed from the voice stream? Or sell information to competing companies?
> Or spy on cheating spouses? .........................
>
> Deutsche Telekom AG, parent company of T-Mobile, even recorded and
> evaluated private calls and communication of journalists, lawyers and
> their own managers to find a whistle blower by hiring former STASI-spies.
> German government is currently awaiting the prosecutor's results to adjust
> the data privacy law. If you can understand German there's a funny satiric
> music video about it at 'http://www.youtube.com/v/PqTKLgwmWOw&hl=en&fs=1'
> and a satiric commercial at
> 'http://www.youtube.com/v/0ucX75gqJBM&hl=en&fs=1'.
>
> Lufthansa evaluated passenger data of journalists to find a whistleblower,
> too.
>
> And there's just been another scandel in Germany in which call center
> employees have sold five million sets of personal data including bank
> account data. The result is that thousands now have contracts they never
> made or plundered bank accounts.
>
> And don't forget totalitarin countries like China, etc.
>
>
> >From that point of view the statement "We don't need ZRTP" is quite naive :(
>
>
> Have phun with spying ;)
>
>
> Renne
>
>
>
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