[83202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sun Aug 7 11:46:37 2005
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:45:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0508062345290.9110@pants.snark.net>
To: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
Cc: Joshua Brady <somitho@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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).
