-----Original Message-----
From: John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mersenne discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Search Warrant (all of it) online
>>Go to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/7676 for the whole
>>thing.
>
>(gawd, I hate GeoCities damn popups!)
<*aol mode on*>
Me too.
<*aol mode off*>
The trick is to minimize it. If you close it, it pops up again with each
new page.
>Their use of 206[3121] is WAY out of bounds. Their interpretation
basically
>sez if you commit ANY crime -against- the phone company, the wiretap laws
are
>out the window. Stop paying your bill, they can legally tap your lines??!?
>File a lawsuit against a telephone company and they can pentrap and trace
your
>calls?? All because of an 'exception' to the lawfull wiretap laws which
>states...
>
> s3121(b) ... does not apply with respect to the use of (taps) by a
>provider of .. wire communication service -- (1) relating to the
operation...
>service, 'or to the protection of the rights or property of such provider'
It's frightening, isn't it? Theoretically, they could probably tap the line
of any employee they fire I suppose...because they *might* have enough info
to *abuse* the system. Every dial the wrong phone number? Is that an abuse
of the phone system? Can they put a tap on your line for fat-fingering a
phone number?
>"My computer fraud training consists of a two week program .. on
investigation
>of Internet hacking" oooh, I'm impressed.
I was similarly impressed (meaning, not at all). He says he's been in the
FBI 14 years, with 7 years investigating white collar crime. I don't doubt
that he *may* have run into a *similar* case (meaning there was something
"electronic" involved), but if his *only* credential applicable to this case
is a 2 week course, then I just don't know what to think. A two week course
by the FBI...the blind leading the blind comes to mind.
>"Carmer says Blosser may still ahve access to US West computers if he has
>placed a modem within US West's intranet system" Uh, say WHAT? They are
the
>fracking phone company. They don't have complete control over where modems
>are?? I know I sure can't plug a modem in where I work, the digital PBX
>system simply won't support it and analog lines are closely controlled.
They do. All the PBX crap inside is digital. Analog lines are here and
there at public cubes, but getting an analog line to a desk is like pulling
teeth, and they do keep track of them. That is yet another thing that makes
this so very strange.
>So why the heck did they confiscate his CD-R recorder? Have these ignorant
>SOB's never even SEEN a CD-R recorder before? Clue, visit your friendly
>neighborhood compushop, plonk down about $250 cash and you can have your
OWN
>cd recorder. Neat toys too.
I wonder too. They wanted to make copies of that cool "Doom" game that some
special agent brought in. :-)
