[onerng talk] Interesting project: JackPair

[ianG]

I suspect the problem with this is more the market:  who are you trying
to protect by allowing them to make anonymous phone calls?  Most people
most of the time don't want that because they know who they are talking
to and their callee knows them by voice, regardless.  So there isn't
much of a p2p point here.

There is the trackability question, but the asterisk trick can't do much
there because each phone call has a nice time signature that is very
hard to break up.

OTOH, there is a big market for bad phone calls such as direct
marketing.  I'm not sure why you would want to support those people.

Not to mention, a bit off topic for this group :)

iang


On 29/10/2014 20:09 pm, Scott wrote:
> This JackPair seems like a pretty cool project. It gives me an off the cuff idea of creating a sort of "phone call anonymizer" the basic premise of which would be Bob calls up an asterisk box which forwards his calls to Alice. The asterisk box wouldn't store any information about who called who, how long the call lasted, etc. I think combined with something like the JackPair you could create an essentially anonymous phone network. Not sure how this would jibe with American/FCC laws or how it would be economically viable, as it would require money to keep the service going. I could see someone paying for this though to basically anonymize their phone calls. You could take it a step further and have the first asterisk box call another random asterisk box before forwarding the call. Sort of like a TOR for phone calls. 
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> I'm a bit sleep deprived and am perhaps missing some gigantic glaring weakness in the system but you know, it's a thought and I wanted to share.