From: "L. Patrick Elam" <patelam3@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 05:35:34 -0800 (PST)
To: Brad Dolan <bdolan@USIT.NET>
Subject: Re: MCI/BT, who gets the taps?
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Maybe the "wiretap" hooks in the carriers' systems are accessable
more globally than they would wish us to believe.

Pat.
At 06:40 AM 11/4/96 -0500, you wrote:
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>Long-distance telecommunications carriers have been in bed with
>governments since Samuel F. B. Morse strung a line into DC.  Only 
>a modest amount of cynicism is required to think that there are
>"wiretap" hooks in the carriers' systems.  When an MCI merges
>with a Britsh Telecom, who gets the benefit of the hooks?
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>bd
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