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FCC issues CALEA orders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Harvey)
Fri Aug 27 21:22:30 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:15:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Or at least, a press release of a summary of pending orders.
The FBI (and every other LEA, there are too many to count) got almost every
wiretapping aid they asked for, and they had apparently asked for a lot.
Somehow, this is not a big surprise.
See www.fcc.gov, in particular:
www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/News_Releases/1999/nret9003.html
For a reasonable summary, see:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters19990827_2390.html
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