Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps

Re:Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps by richiverse on Friday June 06, 2014 @10:11AM (#7857947)

Maybe we should have some kind of tor phone that randomizes phone numbers and scrambles the sound over the wire and reconstitutes the sound through some well engineered Kickstarter phone.

This would render most govt taps moot.

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Re:Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps by creichert on Friday June 06, 2014 @11:02AM (#7858255)

Out of technical interest I have tried to at least get a proof-of-concept Tor phone which works over WiFi. https://github.com/creichert/phonion

It uses TorChat for messaging and Mumble for VOIP (forced over TCP). At one point I had it working on the Raspberry Pi as well. It is not trivial to build at the moment.

Though it can successfully make calls, I am not advertising this as secure or anonymous. It is simply an experiment I did out of interest.

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Re:Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps by Zikes on Friday June 06, 2014 @10:14AM (#7857962)

I imagine it would be pretty difficult to set up an efficient relay system without some serious multiplexing.

Better to just migrate to VOIP, I'd say. Then you could literally route your calls through Tor.

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Re:Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps by deathhand on Friday June 06, 2014 @10:29AM (#7858059)

> literally route your calls through Tor

My god the latency.

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Re:Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps by forgottenpass on Friday June 06, 2014 @11:06AM (#7858289)

p2p encrypted voip is already a thing. You can download apps for it today.

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