[67728] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Forward Privacy" for ISPs and Customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Oct 10 01:02:45 1996
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: Kevin.L.Prigge-2@tc.umn.edu (Kevin L Prigge)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:36:50 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: tcmay@got.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <325c26935621002@noc.tc.umn.edu> from "Kevin L Prigge" at Oct 9, 96 05:26:26 pm
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Timothy C. May said:
> However, there are certain things my phone company does *not* do. They
> don't keep _copies_ (recordings) of my phone conversations. This means a
> court order can't yield copies of past conversations. They also don't track
> incoming phone calls to me. (I don't believe such records of incoming phone
> calls are kept; maybe I'm wrong. Certainly with Caller ID, storing incoming
> phone numbers is possible....I just don't think local or regional phone
> companies care about such records, and hence don't bother to accumulate
> them.)
"MUDs" are typically kept 24-72 hours. They list OUTGOING calls,
hence a big search is needed to translate to incoming.
But it is done...
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