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People use phones instead of email sometimes for sensitive conversations. Do phones count as ephemeral messaging services? What about voice mail?
by bonzini 9y ago
People use phones instead of email sometimes for sensitive conversations. Do phones count as ephemeral messaging services? What about voice mail?
- rosser 9y agoPhones have a record of the call having been made, and are subject to wiretapping. Ephemeral messaging services have neither.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoYou seem to be fixating over the specifics of individual communication mechanisms, which is not the point. For instance, will an insistence that execs of Uber only talk in air-gapped soundproof rooms be considered incriminating?
- rosser 9y agoI'm not the one "fixated" on the mechanism of communication. I've consistently talked about the motivation for using a given mechanism, and, when specific mechanisms have been raised, whether those mechanisms satisfy those motivations. I even specifically said, "not which tool was used, but why." Please don't drag the actual point down into the weeds like that — particularly while accusing me of being the one to do so.
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- ggg9990 9y agoIf the conversation is "sensitive" because you are trying to avoid recording evidence of your illegal activity, then yes, it's illegal.
- weddpros 9y agoSo... if you're doing something illegal, and you know your phone is tapped by the police, it is MANDATORY to use this phone to discuss your illegal activities. Otherwise you'll be prosecuted for it. I hate how stupid laws can get...