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Mac Norton mnorton at cavern.uark.edu
Tue Sep 19 20:18:00 PDT 1995


As I said, phones are inherently tappable--going
upstream to the switch must makes it easier to do
and harder to detect.  This doesn't force the 
conclusion that, if people speak in code on the
phone, they have to give the gov't the key.

MacN

On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, Lucky Green wrote:

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> >While not every telephone, every telephone switch is required
> >to be tap capable  - The Digital Telephony Act.  Note there is
> >provision for the government to pay costs for Telcos to make 
> >their phones tappable - as yet unfunded by Congress.
> 
> Most telephones can be used to monitor conversations in the room they are
> installed in even while on-hook. No need to ever enter the premises. Just
> drive it with AC.  Look at your basic telephone diagram and remember
> Xc=1/(omega*C) from your AC circuits class.
> 
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