> > > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Matt Ghali wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joshua Brady wrote: > > > > the FBI can call the NSA anytime they want without a tap order and > > get them to trigger ECHELON when your voice is apparant on any > > line. > > > > > > Not me, I wrapped my cellphone in tin foil. > > shiny side out one hopes? Seriously though, I'm not a > telco/phone person, > but I was once told that the phone switch equipment does the tap > 'automagically' to special ds-1 facilities inn LEA-land... > which means the > cell phone can be wrapped in anything you'd like. If the calls get > completed a copy is silently made to the right folks (not the > nsa, they > aren't LEA).
Sort of. It has to be provisioned like any other service, (that's most of the X.25 portion that people were talking about) but it's a protocol(J-STD) enabled between the carrier and the LEA. It can be DS1, or it could be VPN. The capture is near real time content and data. -M<