E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible

Evaldo Gardenali evaldo at gardenali.biz
Thu Jul 1 20:56:51 UTC 2004


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William Allen Simpson wrote:
| James Edwards wrote:
|
|>It seems to me all the court said is you cannot use the Wire Tap Act
|>in a case that the communication is not on the wire.
|

Can someone point out, please, that CPUs have kilometers of 'wires', ram
have 'wires', and if anybody does any copying of data, its on the WIRES
of the motherboard (or whatever applies) 'data (WIRE) BUS' ?  :)

Can we say fibers are 'optical wires' ? or we are open to 'fiber taps'?

| That is, at any time (the phrase "seconds or mili-seconds" [sic]) that
| the transmission is not actually on a wire.

CPU and RAM do not work without wires afaik. One can't copy anything
from RAM without transmitting it on wires (even if they are short
enough, they are wires). (we dont have working biocomputers or photon
computers deployed on those hosts yet, I hope  :)

| Switches, routers, and any intermediate computers are fair game for
| warrantless wiretaps.

Same as above, with the question about 'optical wires' for the fibers

(Maybe we need to point out what computers are made from?  :)

Cya
Evaldo
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