Note from EDUPAGE
CALL FORWARD FOR CRIME Criminals have discovered that by forwarding their calls, they can evade wiretaps placed on their home lines. "Criminals can go to any phone, call the `intelligent network' and route calls anywhere," says an FBI special agent. The FBI estimates that 25% of all wiretaps "are adversely affected" by this telephone hide-and-seek. (Wall Street Journal 3/18/94 A5A) [Wex notes: this seems relevant to the ongoing fight over the FBI wiretap proposal; I wonder if they're laying the public groundwork for supporing their proposal to get call-setup information. I also wonder if it would do them a damn bit of good. If I call a number which I know has previously been forwarded to a different number, is the eventual target # part of the call-setup info?]
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Alan (Miburi-san) Wexelblat