Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Electronic sweeping and debugging equiptments
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.020353.5800@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <CMM.0.88.620075522.yj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> <6660@stiatl.UUCP> <10630@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 02:03:53 GMT

In article <10630@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
>>Especially when the adversary is the government that has control of the
>>switching equipment.
>
>Actually, this isn't strictly true. The phone company controls the switching
>equipment...

Except in a handful of Western countries -- I think the US, parts of Canada,
and the UK are the entire list -- the two are one and the same.  Most places,
the Post Office runs the phone system and there is no distinct "phone company".
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