[44450] in Cypherpunks
No Privacy Right in UK ? - Part 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Cobb)
Sat Dec 2 00:30:58 1995
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:26:29 -0500 (EST)
From: "James M. Cobb" <jcobb@ahcbsd1.ovnet.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Friend,
A 12 01 95 The Electronic Telegraph newsstory headlined
Policeman bugs own station by mistake
reports:
...a listening device was found at the headquarters of
Lothian and Borders Police in Edinburgh.
The "bug", disguised to look like a plug adaptor, picked up
the day-to-day business of the operations room, including
radio and telephone messages and conservations between
staff.
Conservations between staff? Conversations in which not a
word is wasted?
Its presence was discovered when staff in a rest area tried
to tune a radio to a different station and picked up the voices
of their colleagues.
I used to despise those who couldn't keep their hands off the
dial for 5 minutes, but since reading this story my attitude's
been adjusted.
Concerned that secrets were being transmitted abroad, the
force "swept" the control room with anti-bugging technology,
only to find that the device belonged to them.
It had been "planted" by an officer who thought it was a real
adaptor.
Of course I believe that!
For what comes around...goes around.
Cordially,
Jim
NOTE. The Electronic Telegraph website's URL:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
The newsstory's by:
AUSLAN CRAMB, SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT
Its online filename: 1bugs01.html
