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Article #135Re: A Trial Balloon on Registered Keys
From: Brad Yearwood
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 23:16
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 23:16
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In article <1992Oct28.045116.28814@netcom.com>, nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes: # ... [re: wiretap] It's tolerated by Congress, # as the legislative history of wiretap law makes clear, but Congress # has never really been happy with wiretaps, and has made approval # for legal wiretaps hard to get. # Perhaps the approval process is procedurally intricate, but I believe I recall seeing that only something on the order of 1 out of 900 federal wiretap court order requests in a recent year was declined. This indicates [choose one or more, according to degree of paranoia]: 1. Nearly infallible investigators / prosecutors 2. Rigorous administrative review before the request gets to a judge 3. Rubber stamp judges Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com Petaluma, CA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!optilink!brad From: brad@optilink.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: A Trial Balloon on Registered Keys Message-ID: <12980@optilink.UUCP> Date: 28 Oct 92 23:16:22 GMT References: <1992Oct27.143737.1574@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <1992Oct28.045116.28814@netcom.com> Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 18