At 4:05 PM 11/21/95, Peter Wayner wrote:
Has anyone ever done the math on the FBI's new wire tapping proposals and determined whether they'll have enough agents to do all of the listening? Doesn't a court ordered wire tap require that people listen in and screen the recordings. Does this have to be in real time? I can't remember, but I think there is a fairly onerous evidentiary chain required to use this technology. ...
The manpower shortage can be solved by moving the listening step offshore, perhaps to one of the Carribbean islands that processes credit card slips. Even cheaper would be to subcontract out the listening to the relatively impoverished, but well-educated and English-trained, former Soviet bloc nations. For example, Romania or Bulgaria, or even Russia. They may still have the old listening infrastructure in place, although I hear that Stasi headquarters in the former DDR is now an acupuncture clinic. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."