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?
Preventing reliable call connections to certain numbers from succeeding comes to mind. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xF6D40CF5 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." Joseph Pulitzer 1907 Speech