Black boxes in Canada

Richard D G Cox Richard.Cox at mandarin.org
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:04:37 +0100


On 28 Aug 2002 11:51, Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com> wrote:

> The first (and so far only) country to ratify the Convention on Cybercrime
> (and five must ratify it before it comes into force, including 3 members
> states of the CoE) was Albania. Says it all for me really :(

Having worked in telecomms in Albania, I can assure you that there is so
little telecommunications infrastructure there that the provision of
whatever additional equipment would be required to comply would not cause
significant expense and that - given the country's background - monitoring
facilities are likely already fully installed.  Their only difficulty might
be getting comms data out of Strowger and relay PABXs that serve as public
exchanges in the less populated areas (almost anywhere outside Tirana!)

-- 
Richard Cox