RE: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for In ternet Services

["Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>]

> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Matt Ghali wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joshua Brady wrote:
> >
> >   the FBI can call the NSA anytime they want without a tap order and
> >   get them to trigger ECHELON when your voice is apparant on any
> >   line.
> >
> >
> > Not me, I wrapped my cellphone in tin foil.
>
> shiny side out one hopes? Seriously though, I'm not a 
> telco/phone person,
> but I was once told that the phone switch equipment does the tap
> 'automagically' to special ds-1 facilities inn LEA-land... 
> which means the
> cell phone can be wrapped in anything you'd like. If the calls get
> completed a copy is silently made to the right folks (not the 
> nsa, they
> aren't LEA).

Sort of. It has to be provisioned like any other service, (that's
most of the X.25 portion that people were talking about) but 
it's a protocol(J-STD) enabled between the carrier and the LEA. It can
be DS1, or it could be VPN. 

The capture is near real time content and data. 

-M<