LlamaZorz - Slashdot User

Comment I love my kindle (Score 5, Interesting) 199

by LlamaZorz on Monday January 11, 2010 @12:01AM (#30719742) Attached to: New Color E-Reader Tech To Challenge E-Ink Dominance

I have a Kindle2 becasue it enables me to read more than I normally would. Certain things I would only read online like periodicals and hack tutorials were not being read due to eye strain. I didnt want to print these as it would become expensive and wasteful fast. My kindle has really long battery life and I actually get less eye strain with it than with real paper books given the grey background. I love the thing, any gloss or color will just make the device cause more strain and that's now what I wanted.

Comment Re:Doesn't stop the government anyways (Score 1) 5

by LlamaZorz on Sunday January 10, 2010 @02:52PM (#30715944) Attached to: Legality & need of encrypted cell phones

I was more referring to complete encryption below the application layer, then allowing it to be re-encrypted by the various protocols. So by the time the GSM encryption kicks in or it gets to the network layer the data would already be encrypted.

Submission + - Legality & need of encrypted cell phones 5

Submitted by LlamaZorz on Sunday January 10, 2010 @02:21PM

LlamaZorz writes: Dear Slashdot community, I have been wondering for quite some time as to why American citizens do not have access to cell phones with encrypted data and voice communication. We all know that the government has such technology and makes very good use of it, so why cant the populace? Is their a set regulation by the FCC or something which prohibits companies from marketing encrypted cell phones to the everyday person? I have searched and cannot find one.

I am aware that both GSM and CDMA all have their own encryption standard which is mainly used to stop everyday people from listening in. But such minor encryption in no way stops our government and its agencies or a criminal organisation. The US government has numerous known programs like ECHELON, where they are capable of listening to your calls, screening for keywords. What is even more scary a majority of our intelligence is outsourced to private enterprise. I find all of these things completely ridiculous. We as citizens should have our privacy and it shouldn't compromised no matter how bad the threat.

So I mainly wanted to ask Slashdot if it were legal & ethical to create such a phone which would use known secure public key encryption trying to completely secure all voice communication. I think such is both possible and practical. What do you guys think?

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