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Does occur to me there is inconsistency in people who want to ensure privacy, using extreme measures on their computer, and then use a landline that sends their phone messages unencrypted across copper wires strung along the side of the building and across the countryside, and a telephone provider who records what number they call, when and for how long. There are aspects to online security which don't map, such as the geographic independence, where an attacker in the next town, and one in the most problem ridden parts of Africa have similar levels of access to attacking your online presence. Buts POTS is pretty dreadful from both security and privacy perspective, the most frequent attack being people tapping into lines and using them to make long distance calls, less now online services give them cheap International calling, but the same attack works with premium rate services. Alas the most frequent attack depends merely on having such a phone line, rather than using it.
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