overseas subpoena; the user has to access the system somehow. If FBI's Big Brother Bill goes through, I can probably do this in fifteen minutes.
But if it doesn't go through, I don't see how they could trace it. My call to CRL is a local call. It might be recorded on my end, but I don't think CRL's phone bill would show it. What did you have in mind?
Maybe a telephony sort can answer this authoritatively, but I think the phone company's logs record this information even for flat-rate local calls. If not, you can do almost anything with access to a modern switch...
. . . since the access provider will take the heat for anything coming out of the account. . .
Not necessarily. Remember, they want the status of common carriers. Open access to all, but no control of content.
This may apply to some providers -- apparently not Netcom. Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu