[14175] in Cypherpunks
(fwd) FBI Digital Telephony Wiretapping a Done Deal??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harry Bartholomew)
Thu May 26 06:46:52 1994
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 03:42:37 -0700
From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From alt.politics.crypto, several forwards deleted:
>US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, May 30, l994
>THE FREEH LOBBY. Thanks to intense personal lobbying by FBI
>Director Louis Freeh, there are now sufficient votes on Capitol Hill to
>assure passage of legislation that would make it far easier for law
>enforcement officials to wiretap the nation's telephone system. The
>snoop-friendly measure, which may be introduced this week, would
>require manufacturers of telephone, computer and cable
>communications equipment to design and build their machines so
>that they could be readily accessed by wiretap and other types of
>eaves-dropping devices used my US law enforcement agencies. The
>legislation would cover communications equipment now in use as well
>as items not yet on the drawing board.
