Now, I don't know how subpeoned phone or other electronic records are handled ---has anyone ever questioned Telco's or paging company recordkeeping? Any readers know more?

I work as a programmer at a company that writes software to handle switch functions and bill cellular and gsm customers. (I work in the billing part) It is a simple matter to get access to the files that store these records. To my knowledge there is no direct audit trail, though I don't know what records the switch itself keeps, if any. The security is rather silly. It is a simple matter to write a few lines of code to dump the name, address, phone number, social security number, mother's maiden name and credit card number of millions of cell phone users. I imagine adding or removing a call record would be simple, as well.