Even more so when you realize that many police departments give courses to
the public utility and cable (and presumably other services) field folks
about what to look for and how to report it.
It's pretty nifty...
And don't forget the dog catcher doesn't need a warrant to come on your
property either.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Faustine wrote:
> Interesting: especially in light of the fact that the Supreme Court has held
> that monitoring (with a pen register) the telephone numbers that an individual
> calls from his home is *not* a search, in that it constitutes information
> already being monitored by the telephone company.
>
> I suppose this same logic would hold true for what's already being monitored
> by the electric company, or, say, what your ISP is already monitoring. So
> perhaps the "solution" to getting around warrants would lie less in
> superadvanced MASINT than in giving the private sector incentives for
> doing more monitoring themselves--while quietly developing your own set of
> tools to take advantage of it.
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