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Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

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Re: Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

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Is that true? I hear bitcoin is gaining market share, and it is the antithesis of anonymity.

I think you are confusing anonymity with something else. Bitcoin is entirely anonymous, but all transactions are public. You can create as many wallets and keys as you want, and you don't have to tell anyone you own them.

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Re: Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

#54
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presumably the country code + phone number is your username... but I can't see the tutorial videos while the site is struggling

I've tried both with and without the country code, but the SIP client fails to register. The server could be overloaded, tough — perhaps I should try again tomorrow.

With regular SIP you might have a look at mizutech SIP encryption. It has multiple encryption methods (the standard TLS/SRTP and non standard RSA based) and also a nice obfuscation to bypass VoIP blockages. They are also running a distributed network to mask the VoIP servers. http://www.mizu-voip.com/Software/VoIPTunnel.aspx

Re: Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

#55
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that true? I hear bitcoin is gaining market share, and it is the antithesis of anonymity.

I think you are confusing anonymity with something else. Bitcoin is entirely anonymous, but all transactions are public. You can create as many wallets and keys as you want, and you don't have to tell anyone you own them.

You identify yourself as the owner of a Bitcoin address every time you transfer funds into or out of a currency with which you can pay food and rent.

Re: Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

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I don't see how it means something entirely different. At most, Franklin and the other founding fathers had a more expansive notion of liberty than is now common. Both the sanctity of private property and the right to privacy are aspects of that sort of liberty.

Is private property really still sanctified when so much of our wealth has come from robbery, slavery, and rents extracted under intimidation?

How do you propose we clean the slate?

Re: Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

#57
post #56

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Is private property really still sanctified when so much of our wealth has come from robbery, slavery, and rents extracted under intimidation?

How do you propose we clean the slate?

I don't think we can clean it. Any redistributive attempt to do so would involve coercive force. It sucks, but it means that for most societies, talking about property as sacred is ultimately a fantasy.

Re: Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

#58
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that true? I hear bitcoin is gaining market share, and it is the antithesis of anonymity.

I think you are confusing anonymity with something else. Bitcoin is entirely anonymous, but all transactions are public. You can create as many wallets and keys as you want, and you don't have to tell anyone you own them.

Bitcoin is NOT anonymous, it is pseudonymous [1], unless you use complicated things like Bitcoin mixers.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/11/26/2121214/bitcoin-is-no...

Re: Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

#59
post #6

Hm. I'm not sure I get it. (from the Google cache) > Q: Can I call any number I want? > A: No. Ghost Call can only call other Ghost Call numbers. > Q: How can we contact you? > A: You can email us at info@ghostcall.io, or Ghost Call us: (490)-628-2381 So it's a ZRTP SIP provider that uses regular phone number format as the identifier? It strikes me as rather much like OSTN/OSTel, but using a phone-number-looking iden…

"You can do this with open source, X, Y and Z" is the classic initial criticism of successful companies. What critics forget to consider is that 99.9% of people do not enjoy doing complicated things. If private calls were as easy as public calls, why wouldn't someone make a private call?

I think there is even an XKCD for this phenomenon.

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