Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 15:48:17 GMT From: Bud Couch Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: You're All a Bunch of Terrorists Message-ID: Organization: Kentrox Industries, Inc. Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 349, Message 6 of 10 Lines: 28 In article phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes: [Moderator's Note: Text omitted. See earlier messages this issue. PAT] -------------- > You might consider writing your Senator and/or Representative and > expressing your opinion on this piece of, uh, legislation. The U.S. Congress is just now catching up to the third world on this one. Although most people see this as a requirement that any encrypting method used be "breakable" by NSC, it also seems to say that telecom switching equipment should allow easy access (read: wiretapping) by government officials. I have seen a number of RFP's for switching equipment issued by Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia (and I have heard that other countries RFP's are similar) which require the ability to remotely monitor *any* call at any time. Software was also *required* that allowed this remote site to scan the call record database. You don't have a problem with this, do you? After all, an honest person has noting to hide. Bud Couch - ADC/Kentrox If my employer only knew... standard BS applies