1996-08-07 - Re: Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now …

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: Bill Stewart <cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-07 14:41:19 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:41:19 +0800

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:41:19 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now   ...
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At 07:59 PM 8/6/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:

>I haven't been able to find the reference, but a month or two ago
>there was an article on the net or in a newspaper about the targets
>of wiretapping - how many wiretaps were for drugs, gambling, tax evasion,
>and of course terrorism.  The number of wiretaps for bombs and guns
>was something low like 80 in the last 5-10 years - about 1/10%. 
>        (Did anybody else see this article??)

Gilmore has a chart on wiretap use in various crimes in his Brain Tennis
match on Wired:

http://www.hotwired.com/braintennis/96/32/index0a.html

DCF








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