IP: Law's Reach Stretches Into Internet

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Law's Reach Stretches Into Internet
John Schwartz New York Times Service
Friday, February 9, 2001
The FBI's Online Eavesdropping Raises Troubling Privacy Issues
QUANTICO, Virginia As long as there have been law enforcement agents, they 
have tried to listen in on what the bad guys are planning.

In early times, that meant standing next to a window in the evesdrope - the 
place where water from the eaves drips - to overhear conversations. As 
communications went electronic, so did eavesdropping: General Jeb Stuart, 
the rebel cavalry leader during the American Civil War, hired a tapper to 
intercept telegraph messages. And by the 1890s, two decades after Alexander 
Graham Bell's first telephone call to Mr. Watson, the first known telephone 
wiretaps by the police were in place.



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