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- From: pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.155445.26924@kadsma.kodak.com>
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- Reply-To: pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Telstar
- References: <168C4A412.PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu> <Bzo279.JFC@unix.amherst.edu> <VEAL.576.725051472@utkvm1.utk.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:54:45 GMT
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- In article <VEAL.576.725051472@utkvm1.utk.edu> VEAL@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal) writes:
- >In article <Bzo279.JFC@unix.amherst.edu> pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN) writes:
- >
- >>David Veal (PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu) wrote:
- >>: In article <BzM8u5.JM3@unix.amherst.edu>
- >>: pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN) writes:
- >>:
- >>: >Jyrki Kuoppala (jkp@cs.HUT.FI) wrote:
- >>: >
-
- [stuff deleted]
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- >>: >: I hear reports of proposed legislation to required every telephone or
- >>: >: other communication network operator be required to build taps for the
- >>: >: Government on all equipment.
- >>: >:
- >>: >Tapping a phone is not that difficult. It can be done anywhere. This country
- >>: >requires a court order in all but a few extreme cases.
- >>:
- >>: There's been far too much "Oops, you mean we were supposed to get
- >>: a court order?" Anyway, what with the advances in technology, it is getting
- >>: harder and harder to do taps. That's part of the big stink over encryption.
- >>: Even if they can do the taps, they want to be able to read the communications.
- >
- >>If the court order isn't obtained, the evidence can't be used.
- >
- > Really? But you know what the amusing thing is? You know what you
- >need to get a court order these days? An anonymous tip will do it in most
- >cases. What protection is a court order that is that easy to get?
- >
-
-
- Not to mention the 'good faith' exemption just granted by the Supreme
- Court not too long ago. Basically, this says that tainted evidence can
- still be used, if the police can demonstrate a 'good-faith effort' to
- follow the rules.
-
-
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >David Veal University of Tennessee Div. of Cont. Education
-
-
- Don Pajerek
-
- Standard disclaimers apply.
-