[14258] in Cypherpunks
Re: Response to Uni's "Lawsuit" Message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Fri May 27 02:50:08 1994
To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 94 23:27:10 PDT
From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405262114.A27568-0100000@crl.crl.com>; from "Sandy Sandfort" at May 26, 94 9:57 pm
> > overseas subpoena; the user has to access the system somehow. If
> > FBI's Big Brother Bill goes through, I can probably do this in
> > fifteen minutes.
>
> But if it doesn't go through, I don't see how they could trace it. My
> call to CRL is a local call. It might be recorded on my end, but I don't
> think CRL's phone bill would show it. What did you have in mind?
Maybe a telephony sort can answer this authoritatively, but I think
the phone company's logs record this information even for flat-rate
local calls. If not, you can do almost anything with access to a
modern switch...
> > . . . since the access provider will take the heat for anything
> > coming out of the account. . .
>
> Not necessarily. Remember, they want the status of common carriers.
> Open access to all, but no control of content.
This may apply to some providers -- apparently not Netcom.
Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
