-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A little further along in the AP story on the record level of Clinton Administration wire taps, Micheal J. Sniffen states: In a section on surveillances completed in 1993, the report said the longest and most expensive federal eavesdropping was accomplished by a microphone placed inside a New Jersey lawyer's office in a racketeering case. The microphone actually operated 435 days, overhearing a total of 65 people, at a cost of $517,673. ...The government said in court, "the purpose of utilizing the law offices ... was to evade electronic surveillance by fraudulently creating the appearance that these were legally proper meetings." This microphone recorded conversations in the office, not the telephone. As I stated to Dr. Dorthy Denning of Georgetown University, escrowed encryption is unnecessary for surveillance. In addition to "bugs", intellegence agencies also provide long range listening technology to the enforcement agencies like the FBI and DEA. Organized criminals don't use the phone to discuss business, it can be tapped. This sort of blows a hole in Stuart Baker's arguments for escrowed encryption being necessary in law enforcement. The next time he offends someone with his tired trig joke, I would hope that he is ask to rebut this. As well as to estimate how many conversations and participants are actually involved in the given figure of 333 1993 "wiretaps." Long range listening was found to fall under federal "wiretap" rules in the Smalldone case in Denver during the summer of 1982. Try to FOIA that info. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLdKerV/ScHuGXWgVAQFziAQAuYTNTKjaqTWaOO3C42yKCWLM7+kU1gXp 4sGxHGQKfsDP333zLNA+ETGuVfs6si5YQVbsnlGVdS/v36oZp8bUj/8MgWYKLj66 1jRNf4mPl0Mb5LL7InrUwjKCqmOb/GLuHK7F0cHzZbsBE2FkmIqi27AcgJ/8nMxl lFiBbzWrBk4= =I+yV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PGP PUBLIC KEY via finger! JAFEFFM Speaking & Thinking For Myself! * eagle@deeptht.armory.com email info@eff.org * *** O U T L A W S On The E L E C T R O N I C F R O N T I E R **** ***** Committed to Free Public Internet Access for World Peace *****