Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!bionet!lear From: lear@genbank.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: hacker = computer criminal Message-ID: Date: 6 Oct 90 20:55:48 GMT References: <4761@bone25.UUCP> <69148@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <20225:Oct319:48:5690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <20959@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 16 tenney@well.sf.ca.us (Glenn S. Tenney) writes: >In California, it is illegal to record a telephone conversation >unless a notification (that "beep" every x seconds) is made to >(if I recall correctly) *both* parties of the conversation. This >hasn't, to my knowledge, been tested with data calls. What about the telephone company? Can they monitor and record calls for their own internal purposes? Certainly, under ECPA they can monitor calls for their own purposes, so long as they do not divulge the information learned. In this case, would not Cliff Stoll be an extension of the phone company? -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]