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Date: 2000-04-06
Abhoer-Equipment: US-Telekoms kassieren-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- von Abhör-Equipment durch den Staat finanzieren lassen, ist schon beisammen. Damit ist es nur noch ein kleiner Schritt bis das seit 1994 in der Schwebe befindliche Abhörgesetz CALEA [in EU hieß das Gegenstück zu CALEA eine Zeit lang ENFOPOL] umgesetzt wird. CALEA Background http://service.quintessenz.at/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=and&format=builtin-long&config=quisse&restrict=&exclude=&sort=score&words=CALEA&submit=Suchen -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- relayed by Eveline Lubbers" <evel@xs4all.nl -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Telecom Firms Lobby for Funding Of Upgrades to Ease Surveillance By DAVID S. CLOUD And DAVID ROGERS The telecommunications industry is pressing Congress for full payment of nearly $500 million to help companies fund software upgrades needed to enable law-enforcement agencies to wiretap digital- and wireless-telephone networks. An emergency spending bill approved by the House last week would make the final $382 million available, but the financing is threatened by the Senate's stalling over the larger appropriations package. The budget fighting could further delay the phone companies' compliance with a 1994 surveillance law, already nearly two years behind schedule. Since the early 1990s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been warning that conversion to digital and wireless equipment was threatening to undermine the usefulness of court-approved phone surveillance. Traditional intercept gear monitors a single line, recording incoming and outgoing call information. But digital systems don't have analog pulses that make such information readily obtainable. And when digital switches route a call using a feature such as call forwarding, it isn't detectable. ... The telephone funding is caught in a larger fight now affecting billions of dollars for the Pentagon and to fight narcotics trafficking in Colombia. Disgruntled House Republicans, who won a strong vote for the package last week, will meet with GOP senators today to discuss the Senate leadership's refusal to take up the measure ... "No, I don't think [the bill] is dead," said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens of Alaska, who has allied with Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois in favor of moving a bill. But Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi maintains that he will save time in October by scuttling the measure now and parsing out its different pieces among the 13 annual appropriations measures for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. To the extent that real emergencies exist, Mr. Lott believes the pressure will help him get a head start on the appropriations process this summer. To an unusual degree, Republicans are pressing to move some of the biggest bills -- including defense and the health and education budgets -- early in hopes of avoid the typical year- end crunch. ... In the case of the telephone money, this same rule applies. The industry would like the full $500 million in place by June 30, and the House resorted to declaring the obligation a "contingent emergency" to get around budget limits for this year. A Senate draft circulated this week by the Appropriations Committee staff declared no such emergency - - then allowed only $100 million. The 1994 wiretap law provides for government reimbursement to companies that upgrade switches sold before the law went into effect. The FBI has reached tentative agreements to pay major equipment manufacturers, including Nortel Networks Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Siemens AG and Motorola Inc., for the cost of developing the upgrades. But none of the manufacturers have been willing to complete deals until Congress appropriates the reimbursement money. ... Voll Text http://cryptome.org/wiretab.htm -.- -.-. Connectivity statt Isolierung http://o5.or.at -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 2000-04-06 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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