[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Officials spy on calls

[Carl Guderian <carlg@vermilion-sands.com>]

Not a good idea. The Dutch govt buys spy equipment from Israel also, but
recently found that Mossad had installed a backdoor. Espionage isn't
something you should outsource.

Special Agent Carl

Working for The Phone Company (TPC), which is run by the handyman from
"One Day At A Time."

Miles Nordin wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "em" == Erich M <erich-moechel@quintessenz.at> writes:
> 
>     em> Wiretapping one fone number around the clock needs
>     em> three cops.
> 
> In the US, wiretapping is outsourced to the Israeli company Comverse
> Infosys.  The overall system has a voicemail-like interface.  If your
> three-shifts assumption is still valid in Australia, I doubt if it
> will be for long.
> 
> see:
> 
>  http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40824,00.html
>  www.politechbot.com archive, around 2001-12-14
> 
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