From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 01:59:00 +0800
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Subject: Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary?
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At 03:43 PM 3/27/96 -0500, Shabbir J. Safdar wrote:
> Your misunderstanding of how interceptions are done is dangerous to
> what is otherwise a rational, intelligent argument.  
>
> Indeed, there are ways to conduct a wiretap without a judge.  They require
> dispensations from people like the Attorney General, for example.  And
> this is certainly not a normal practice.

I suggest that you study arithmetic before pontificating on normal government
practice:

1% of all phone capacity = 850 wiretaps a year.  Yeah, right.
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