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From: mc@sickkids.toronto.edu (Ms Mary Corey)
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Subject: Re: BC Politician's Cellular Calls Taped; Big Mess Ensues
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Date: 10 Aug 90 22:45:46 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 559, Message 4 of 12


In article <10044@accuvax.nwu.edu> contact!djcl@uunet.uu.net (woody)
writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 509, Message 4 of 10

>The _Toronto_Star_, 21st July 1990 had an article entitled "Phone puts
>B.C.  whiz kid's career on hold". It was about the controversy
>surrounding former British Columbia Attorney-General Bud Smith, after
>some tapes of some of his cellular phone calls were released.

I've read several articles about this case, but none of them have
stated information about the quality and duration of these recordings.
However they do say that a scanner was used.  My impression is that it
is not possible or very difficult to identify and deliberately record
a particular cellular subscribers phone conversations, nor is it
easy/possible to follow that conversation from cell to cell.  Can this
be explained, is it legal, or is the cellular stuff just a smokescreen
to hide an (illegal) wiretap?