>At 04:05 AM 4/5/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: >>At 2:00 AM -0400 4/5/00, Lucky Green wrote: >>I am currently participating in specifications working groups focused on next-generation digital mobile telephony. Cypherpunks will find some of the new features coming to a mobile phone near you interesting: the subscriber's telephony provider will be able to initiate outbound calls via a request over SMS and even will be able to access the user's phone directory without user approval or notification. Nobody at this meeting that I could identify appears to be concerned in the slightest about the security implications of this "feature". Their sole concern appears to be that the provider still gets paid for such non-user initiated calls. >Amazing... > >All of these other folks in these working groups...is there any way you can kill them all at one time, without yourself being in any danger? First things first. Lucky, please publish the name and email addresses of the working group members. Seems the public aught to know just who is deciding these standards. KS IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are not using HushMail, this message could have been read easily by the many people who have access to your open personal email messages. Get your FREE, totally secure email address at http://www.hushmail.com.
