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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 01:55:06 -0800 From: Jay Campbell <edge@got.net> Subject: FBI seeks huge wiretapping system
FBI seeks huge wiretapping system BY JOHN MARKOFF New York Times
``These are staggering numbers,'' said Mark Rasch, director of information security law and policy for Science Applications International Corp. in McLean, Va. ``Either they do a lot more wiretaps than they now admit, or they plan on doing a significant larger number of wiretaps in the future because of the fear of domestic terrorism.''
I can see at least two possible alternative explanations: 1. The FBI envisions a time when voice-recognition systems will be cheap enough to do "keyword searches" on digital voice in something close to real time, with high accuracy. This might be useful when fishing for crime, dissent, etc. It would certainly require some rather broader powers, but they may expect this, especially if they expect more acts of domestic and foreign terrorism. 2. After implementing some kind of widespread escrowed crypto, the FBI envisions recording lots of encrypted phone conversations, perhaps targeted on suspiscious people, perhaps random. Since the whole conversation is encrypted, this might not violate any laws, since they still have to get the warrant to recover the conversation. This would get them past the obvious practical problem with most wiretap-based investigations--if you start your wiretap three days after the target becomes a suspect, you've probably missed all the juicy stuff. Only a bit of carelessness or stupidity on the part of your target will get the desired information.
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