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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Designfor In ternet Services
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Matt Ghali wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joshua Brady wrote: > > 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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