Re: fwd: $100 secure phones from Starium
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 04:56:02PM -0500, Dan Geer wrote: > > Did this "$100 secure phone" ever come to pass? > > I stopped off at http://www.starium.com/ but the page is > unmodified since April last. > > Starium-ites, are you out there? > > --dan > Thanks for the question. We're busy at work in "Stealth Mode". Stay tuned. You'll like the news. If you'd like to be an alpha or beta tester, send me mail explaining why you'd make a good tester. We're especially interested in people who have access to many different types of phones and PBX's. Thanks, Eric Blossom[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer Starium, Ltd.
Re: fwd: $100 secure phones from Starium
Does delay, stealth mode, and visit from the MIB indicate that Starium has been CAVE-crippled in order to get a life-saving contract from the USG, like the coerced compliance of TMI in Canada Perry posted on? The future of the Web set out by Robert Cailliau, who cites France's beloved Mintel as a model, reminds that such nationally condoned and subsidized systems (as with PTT) are now being seen as wide area surveillance systems camouflaged by sophisticated PR campaigns to induce widespread familiarity, convenience shopping, chatting, networking -- fercrissakes, smell likes the benign segue from Darpa to education to commerce of the Internet. Van Eck made his Tempest rep working for PTT to develop a means to EM emanations from its teleboxes whose EMI were being complained about by neighbors in adjoining apartments. Van Eck discovered the leaking in the devices, raised the point in public for a while, then apparently was informed that the technical deficiency was no accident and went oddly quiet. This is described in Harold Highland's 1988 article in Abacus. There's an intriguing parallel between the rise of cryptography and the recession of information on electromagnetic snooping by non-intrusive means. Not unlike the panel who sponsored the 1996 CRISIS report recommended: boost strong crypto while increasing funding for other, never unidentified, technologies for getting around it. The FBI's stolid demand for weak crypto stinks of deception, a cloak for worse.
Re: fwd: $100 secure phones from Starium
Dan, I wrote about Starium in August: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,21236,00.html CEO Lee Caplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote me this month and told me they had a prototype ready to show me. (I was in the area but couldn't stop by.) I'm copying Lee on this message; I'm sure he can provide details. -Declan At 16:56 11/26/1999 -0500, Dan Geer wrote: > >Did this "$100 secure phone" ever come to pass? > >I stopped off at http://www.starium.com/ but the page is >unmodified since April last. > >Starium-ites, are you out there? > >--dan
Re: fwd: $100 secure phones from Starium
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Dan Geer wrote: > > Did this "$100 secure phone" ever come to pass? > > I stopped off at http://www.starium.com/ but the page is > unmodified since April last. > > Starium-ites, are you out there? > > --dan A asked them about this osme time ago, and got the following replies: frank >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 27 10:53:11 1999 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:23:14 -0700 From: Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank A. Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Me curious ... On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:30:25PM +0200, Frank A. Stevenson wrote: > Kind of long now since your web pages have been updated. > > Did the Men In Black finally get to you or what ? > > frank Nope! Still alive and well. We're in stealth mode ;-) Stay tuned for further developments. Eric - and - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 27 10:55:20 1999 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:37:21 -0700 From: Bernie Sardinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank A. Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Me curious ... Hi Frank, Yes! we have been visited by the man in black, however all is fine and on track to deliver our solution shortly. Thanks Bernie --- Bernie Sardinha Tel: (831) 333-9393 x17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (831) 333-9394 Fax http://www.starium.com --- This sentence is unique in this respect; it can safely be attributed to my employer, Funcom Oslo AS. 9C6A46E606959C4B8C84 47B72836446BE34311EC PGPmail preferred There is no place like N59 50.558' E010 50.870'. (WGS84)
Re: fwd: $100 secure phones from Starium
Did this "$100 secure phone" ever come to pass? I stopped off at http://www.starium.com/ but the page is unmodified since April last. Starium-ites, are you out there? --dan
$100 secure phones from Starium
Starium is about to start selling $100 phone encryption units, according to this article: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21236.html This could potentially change the encryption debate landscape quite dramatically, as even casual users will be able to justify the price. -- Perry Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Ask not what your country can force other people to do for you..."
