FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for In ternet Services
Christopher L. Morrow
christopher.morrow at mci.com
Sun Aug 7 15:45:12 UTC 2005
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Matt Ghali wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joshua Brady wrote:
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> the FBI can call the NSA anytime they want without a tap order and
> get them to trigger ECHELON when your voice is apparant on any
> line.
>
>
> Not me, I wrapped my cellphone in tin foil.
shiny side out one hopes? Seriously though, I'm not a telco/phone person,
but I was once told that the phone switch equipment does the tap
'automagically' to special ds-1 facilities inn LEA-land... which means the
cell phone can be wrapped in anything you'd like. If the calls get
completed a copy is silently made to the right folks (not the nsa, they
aren't LEA).
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