From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-05-26 10:42:49 UTC
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From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
Date: Thu, 26 May 94 03:42:49 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: (fwd) FBI Digital Telephony Wiretapping a Done Deal??
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From alt.politics.crypto, several forwards deleted:
>US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, May 30, l994
>THE FREEH LOBBY. Thanks to intense personal lobbying by FBI
>Director Louis Freeh, there are now sufficient votes on Capitol Hill to
>assure passage of legislation that would make it far easier for law
>enforcement officials to wiretap the nation's telephone system. The
>snoop-friendly measure, which may be introduced this week, would
>require manufacturers of telephone, computer and cable
>communications equipment to design and build their machines so
>that they could be readily accessed by wiretap and other types of
>eaves-dropping devices used my US law enforcement agencies. The
>legislation would cover communications equipment now in use as well
>as items not yet on the drawing board.
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