[83204] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for In ternet Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Sun Aug 7 12:04:53 2005
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 12:04:19 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
"Matt Ghali" <matt@snark.net>
Cc: "Joshua Brady" <somitho@gmail.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Matt Ghali wrote:
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> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joshua Brady wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Not me, I wrapped my cellphone in tin foil.
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> shiny side out one hopes? Seriously though, I'm not a=20
> 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...=20
> 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=20
> nsa, they
> aren't LEA).
Sort of. It has to be provisioned like any other service, (that's
most of the X.25 portion that people were talking about) but=20
it's a protocol(J-STD) enabled between the carrier and the LEA. It can
be DS1, or it could be VPN.=20
The capture is near real time content and data.=20
-M<
