Juries 'should hear phone taps' to nail crime gangs

[Owen Lewis]

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From: Dave Bird <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: 12 September 2002 01:36
Subject: Re: Juries 'should hear phone taps' to nail crime gangs


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> In article <000d01c25809$108cad40$c65108c3@oml>, Owen Lewis
> <oml@sysrx.uk.com> writes
> >3. It is axiomatic that many forms of electronic eavesdropping are easly
> >rendered nugatory if the method of their execution is understood.
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>  Actually it isn't, except perhaps the extent to which the tracing
>  can or cannot be followed onto mobiles and pay-phones.

I disagree and so might many others.

>  The only lesson from routine tapping is that "Your phone can be
>  bugged and you almost certainly won't be able to detect the
>  existence of bugging.  Any location you frequent regularly can
>  be bugged and you almost certainly won't be able to detect the
>  existence of bugging."

Not so. Unless you are referring only the 'bugging' of the man in the street
by some govt agency. Have you any idea of how many husbands bug wives, wives
bug lovers, lovers bug boyfriends, boyfriends bug business partners who bug
their secretaries etc..? :-)

There's a whole raft of private dicks who make money finding the things.


Owen