From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 03:38:36 MDT
It appears as if <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
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|Actually, one doesn't need a court order to tap a phone *in a different
|country*. This is the reason why Britain taps into US suspect lines and
|the US taps into British suspect lines, so they can get around this
|restriction. However, note that you have to be rather high on the want
|list for the intelligence signals people to check on you. Regular
|domestic criminal activity is not generally monitored for.
So U.S. govt considers phone tapping a federal thing?
Meaning: no [U.S.] state can tap phones in another [U.S.] state?
|Neither country requires a court order to tap phone lines in any other
|country.
Echelon just wants to be your friend. !-/
|Furthermore, this 'tapping' only works for networks which are unsecure,
|and for unencrypted packets on the worldwide network.
No Such Agency might have a different view, of course. Your statement
also requires that network equipment sold abroad from the U.S. contain no
secret back doors. In a cloak-and-dagger world, one should avoid such
assumptions in order to avoid unnecessary security breaches.
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