A Pretty Good Way to Foil the NSA

[WhiteTara]

hackers have a place in the world and here is one of them.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70524-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
By Ryan Singel| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Apr, 03, 2006

How easy is it for the average internet user to make a phone call secure enough to frustrate the NSA's extrajudicial surveillance program?

Wired News took Phil Zimmermann's newest encryption software, Zfone, for a test drive and found it's actually quite easy, even if the program is still in beta.

Zimmermann, the man who released the PGP e-mail encryption program to the world in 1991 -- only to face an abortive criminal prosecution from the government -- has been trying for 10 years to give the world easy-to-use software to cloak internet phone calls.

On March 14, Zimmermann released a beta version of the widely anticipated Zfone. The software is currently available only for OS X (Tiger) and Linux, though a Windows version is due in April.

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[Richard Steele]

1. Great defense will always beat great offense...and vice versa. nm