On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, coderman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
... Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009...
i am more interested in the redacted details of this little snippet:
"Our pricing schedules reveal (for just two examples) that upon the lawful request of law enforcement we are able to [XXX two examples redacted by USMS XXX]. In cooperation with law enforcement, we do not release that information to the general public out of concern that a criminal may become aware of our capabilities, see a change in his service, correctly assume that the change was made at the lawful request of law enforcement and alter his behavior to thwart a law enforcement investigation."
what two examples of lawful intercept on Verizon lines would introduce a subtle "change in service" detectable by someone paying attention?
Maybe they would notice their handset continuously running low on battery, even without placing calls ? Or maybe some lag, or delay in connection setup as call data or voice data, etc., is routed somewhere non-standard, or perhaps "repeated" on a parallel circuit ?