[67857] in Cypherpunks
RE: legality of wiretapping: a "key" distinction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Oct 11 10:24:14 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 06:17:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: blanc <blancw@cnw.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199610101654.JAA24509@mail.pacifier.com>
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, jim bell wrote:
> Unicorn's response was inadvertently hilarious. He says that wiretapping is
> "firmly entrenched" in law-enforcement, but the truth is that it was
> "firmly entrenched" long before it was even legal!
Yep, seems right to me. While I share some part of your position on the
undesirability of wiretapping, Uni's remarks about it being "firmly
entrenched" in the minds of L.E. and Capitol Hill are quite on-target.
Few here in DC believe in an absolute right to privacy.
-Declan
// declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com //
