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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by shshhdhs on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:56AM (#13845413)
I wouldn't use the phone for exchanging plaintext keys. You're forgetting about ECHELON, wiretaps, and the dragnets where LEA are ignoring (or purposefully misinterpreting) the law.

It's really cheap to store ALL phone calls these days, and just "playback" when you get the legal search warrant.

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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by praptak on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:39AM (#13845532)
It's only about avoiding automatic dragnet, so making a person listen to the conversation and figure out the key counts as success.
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by shshhdhs on Saturday March 11, 2017 @11:47AM (#13846036)
Automatic voice transcriptions has been a technology for greater than two decades.
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by jacquesm on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:26AM (#13845494)
And it doesn't count as surveillance until someone looks at it...
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by dredmorbius on Saturday March 11, 2017 @10:18AM (#13845667)
Exchange many keys.
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