>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:06:55 -0400 > > TMI phones also had to be equipped with >geo-positioning technology so the FBI could pinpoint a suspect's location >when he made a >call. > >This was crucial, as Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a June >14, 1999, >letter to FCC Chairman William Kennard. "Finding out that a drug deal, >murder or >bombing is about to occur, without having any indication of the location >of the criminal is >only marginally useful," he wrote. Unless TMI addressed the shortcomings, >Mr. Holder >wrote, its phones would become "a communication tool of choice among drug >dealers, >organized crime and terrorist groups." > >http://cryptome.org/carnivore-mega.htm > >So much for the "its for 911" sham.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
