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schestowitz> Hi Dr RoyJun 23 08:18
schestowitz>Jun 23 08:18
schestowitz> Thanks for the response. Please have a look at the attached documents.Jun 23 08:18
schestowitz> They have advised me at Seattle PD that they will send these inJun 23 08:18
schestowitz> installments and that it will take up to 8 months to receive all.Jun 23 08:18
schestowitz> However, I think what is attached should be of use.Jun 23 08:18
schestowitz> I'm busy at present with a separate project, so feel free to follow upJun 23 08:18
schestowitz> on these.Jun 23 08:18
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schestowitz"I can call you on a landline. When are you available?"Jun 23 10:39
schestowitzIf you can send me notes, that would be helpful.Jun 23 10:39
schestowitzFor reasons that are understandable, can you set up e-mail encryption like PGP?Jun 23 10:39
schestowitzOld (anon'ed)Jun 23 10:39
schestowitz> Skype is now centralized.  That's one of the first things Microsoft did when itJun 23 10:39
schestowitz> bought it out.  Now all the conversations go via servers in Redmond.Jun 23 10:39
schestowitz> There is also reason to believe that machine learning monitors theJun 23 10:39
schestowitz> conversations real-time and that special cases get special attention.Jun 23 10:39
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:39
schestowitz> If it does it to e-mail,Jun 23 10:39
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://money.cnn.com/2014/03/21/technology/security/microsoft-email/Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> and if both the means and the motive are there to do it for voice,Jun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 503 @ https://money.cnn.com/2014/03/21/technology/security/microsoft-email/ )Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/08/microsoft_skype_translation_spying/Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/28/microsoft_services_agreement_bars_offensive_language/Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Reminder: When a tech giant says it listens to your audio recordings to improve its AI, it means humans are listening. Right, Skype? Cortana? • The RegisterJun 23 10:40
schestowitz> then they will certainly do it for voice.  Especially if one or bothJun 23 10:40
schestowitz> parties is known to Redmond.Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> See instead Jitsi, Jitsi-meet, Blink, Jami, or Signal.Jun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs • The RegisterJun 23 10:40
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://jitsi.org/Jun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-jitsi.org | Jitsi.org - develop and deploy full-featured video conferencingJun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://icanblink.com/Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://jami.net/Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://www.mumble.info/Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz> https://signal.org/Jun 23 10:40
schestowitz>Jun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ag-projects.com | Real Time Communications Experts | AG ProjectsJun 23 10:40
schestowitz> SIP is a safer option and much higher quality that a mobile phone posingJun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-jami.net | JamiJun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.mumble.info | MumbleJun 23 10:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-signal.org | NO TITLEJun 23 10:40
schestowitz> as a land line.  However, some of those might be a little unpolished onJun 23 10:40
schestowitz> some platforms and many are trapped, vulnerable to GitHub.Jun 23 10:40
schestowitzI am working on getting pgp set up for him...Jun 23 10:40
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