[42894] in Cypherpunks
Re: Telephone switch capacity -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sat Nov 4 22:27:32 1995
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 19:30:01 -0800
To: llurch@networking.stanford.edu
From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 18:43 11/3/95, Rich Graves wrote:
>[about the FBI supposedly wanting the ability to tap 1% of all phones in
>the US simultaneously]
[...]
>Of course the FBI doesn't have the staff to listen to all these lines, and
>they need an individual court order to authorize each individual
>interception, so this numbers game is a bit of a joke.
One more time. Despite what you read in the papers, despite what most
people - even in the legal profession - believe, telephone wiretaps do
_not_ require a court order. They haven't required a court order in over a
year. The Digital Telephony Bill, which passed Congress by an overwhelming
margin, _explicitly_ allows for wiretap authorizations other than a court
order. The law does not impose any rules for these "other forms of
authorization".
"The captain signed it off" may suffice.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
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