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Example of a system doing A+B+C -> Skype. You can claim that they have some way to clone the traffic for NSA use - maybe they do, but from the technical point of view - they satisfy the requirements. It also relies on Skype doing proper authentication / identity presentation. Hardware-only plug & play box will never work here. You actually have to know something about the connection - information provided out of band…
> Skype If it doesn't have backdoors now, it will soon. The remote-intercept capability mandate for land line phones is in the process of being extended to all commercial VOIP. > Hardware-only plug & play box will never work here. This looks like an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Terminal_Equipment Or, for that matter, this: http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?item=32640fd9-0213-4... > I don't think…
If you have to worry about being monitored by government, a super secret phone will not help you anyways. If it's worth doing, your room / furniture / clothes / windows are already bugged and all you say will be recorded before it hits the phone. I really think a provably secure phone is a non-issue.