So here’s the deal

So you’re an opposition congressman and there
you are fiddling your thumbs, wondering what kind of dirt the President
has on you, what with her wiretapping expertise.
After all, you did spend a fortune on the last election, and you have
an expensive lifestyle to maintain, and there are these business
interests your family that depend on your political protection. Your
wife is looking to be a Congressman after your three terms are over.
You just can’t afford to lose your job.
What are you to do?

Hmmm.

I don’t normally help
people like you, but in this case I’ll make an exception. Because it’s
in the public’s interest. And because it is a cause that is dear to my
heart.

Here’s what you have to do:

1.Pass a bill to
approve VoiP now! The sooner you have VoIP services, the sooner you can
have end-to-end encryption on all your VoIP phone calls. This way, no
Telco can wiretap your phone. No ISAFP operative can listen in on your
phone conversation. Your ISP won’t know if that is you on their
network. And even if the ISP did suspect it was you, it would be
difficult - but not impossible to decrypt your conversation. Run, don’t
walk! Pass a VoIP bill now! (caveat - VoIP encryption can easily be
improved in the near future, as it’s all done in software, and PCs
today have enough CPU power to use bigger encryption keys)

2.
Break the Telco monopoly. Allow ISPs to become phone companies without
requiring a legislative franchise or an NTC franchise. Why? Because the
Telco will know it is YOUR house that they’ve installed DSL to. And
whatever encryption you put on your VoIP calls, the Telco will know if
a phone conversation is coming from your house (or office), and if they
are determined enough (or if your enemies are determined enough), they
will find a way to decrypt and record your conversations. What you need
to do is to be able to get your last mile service from other providers.
If there are enough small last-mile providers out there, then you’ll be
able to find a DSL provider whom you can trust. [Remember, as long as
your VoIP conversation does not go over a Network whom you do not trust
- then you are absolutely safe!]

3. Allow anyone to be a
Mobile Carrier. It’s a lot easier than you think. IP.Access makes a
picocell GSM/GPRS base station. So it’s possible to create your own GSM
phone company *using DSL lines*! This way you Congressman can have your
own GSM network! (And you’ll have true security as well - provided you
keep your switches in a secure location!) And the rest of us can have
cheap GSM service!

4. Reimburse Meralco for its use of the
Wifi frequency and open it up. This way you can do true end-to-end
encryption of a mobile conversation. VoIP over WIFI is still in its
infancy, but it is coming, and you can bet that it WILL BE HUGE! Once
anyone can set up Wifi base stations and offer VoIP over Wifi, you will
see a lot of people switching from GSM phones to WIFI-equipped PDASl
Why do you need Wifi? Because calling within your own Congressional GSM
network won’t suffice! You’ll need to call people outside your network.
And once the signal leaves your GSM network and enters PLDT’s network
it is UNENCRYPTED!

Remember - VoIP calls do not require the
signal to pass from one carrier that is interconnected with the other.
It stays encrypted all the way. So even if two parties are on different
VoIP networks (eg Vonage and FWD), they can still talk to each other
w/o the signal having to even pass through the Vonage “network” or the
FWD “network”.

Hope that helps!