Best Handset For Freedom? 232
Father Thomas Dowd writes "The images we are seeing of Iran are being captured on cell phones and the text is being twittered over SMS. Still, the government has some control over the networks, and we are all familiar with fears of wiretap technologies to spy on users. If the cell phone is the new tool of freedom, what would the best 'freedom handset' contain? I'm thinking of a device with an open OS, where each phone could be a router for encrypted messages passed through Bluetooth/WiFi/whatever, thereby totally bypassing physical infrastructures when necessary. Of course, some sort of plausible deniability encryption a la Truecrypt would also be good, in case the secret police catch you with your phone. What else might we need?"
Are you kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
Seeing how the election has gone so far, ummm, an M4 or AK-47?
I know what my ideal headset would have. (Score:3, Funny)
A nicely shielded tin-foil dome to protect my head meat from the aliens!
Re:Are you kidding? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Open source smart phone (Score:2, Funny)
Yup, they have a special build of the OS for Obama's phone, to make sure everything is encrypted. Of course, it means that the device is functionally useless because nobody else can decrypt any sent data, but he really likes how the BlackBerry's keyboard feels.
Plausible deniability (Score:2, Funny)
Remind me to plant 4.3GB from /dev/random to some obscure location of your hard drive and label it newworldorder.iso.truecryptX2, then call the guys who hire the men with the alligator clips.
Just for grins, I'll encrypt the file with TrueCrypt using your wife's maiden name as the password. Since you obviously had one layer of encryption and since the decrypted file looks random, obviously there's a second layer of encryption.
"What's the password to the 2nd layer"
"What second layer? I have no idea what you are talking about"
"We have ways of making you talk."
Re:Are you kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
Seeing how the election has gone so far, ummm, an M4 or AK-47?
There is no way an AK-47 will ever be sold on any kind of usage plan. Can you imagine how things would go if a user disputed their statement and didn't like the outcome taking it to the billing department? "What do you mean you're going to charge me for the excess bullets!? I didn't use them that month! Here take them back you scum!" *machine gun fire*