03/17:Cops keep tabs, wireless data

[Freakapotimus]

Helping cops keep tabs on wireless data
By Ben Charny
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 17, 2003, 7:11 AM PT

NEW ORLEANS - Cops are finally getting to see firsthand whether pager-favoring, tech-savvy criminals have upgraded to America's newest wireless networks.
Until recently, police conducting wiretaps on services such as mMode from AT&T Wireless and PCS Vision from Sprint PCS could intercept only phone conversations. Millions of instant messages or photos were off limits to crime fighters' wiretaps because the necessary eavesdropping technology didn't exist.

Now, VeriSign, Cisco Systems and other members of 2-month-old Global LI Industry Forum (LI stands for "lawful interception") say they have finally developed the answer, beginning with VeriSign's NetDiscovery service, which was introduced at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show here Monday.

Full story at http://msn-cnet.com.com/2100-1039-992832.html

[Der-Ubermensch]

Next thing you know they'll find a way to analyse our crap before it hits the sewers..

[NEMESiSZ]

At 3/17/03 11:47 AM, Ruination wrote: Next thing you know they'll find a way to analyse our crap before it hits the sewers..

Apparently you've never had Dunkin Donuts coffee.

[JMHX]

At 3/17/03 11:57 AM, NEMESiSZ wrote:

At 3/17/03 11:47 AM, Ruination wrote: Next thing you know they'll find a way to analyse our crap before it hits the sewers..

Apparently you've never had Dunkin Donuts coffee.

Very uncalled for, Nemesisz. Sometimes you act like a child, I swear.

[Ted-Easton]

At 3/17/03 01:26 PM, JudgeMeHarshX wrote: .
I swear.

I know.
I've heard you.

[NEMESiSZ]

It was a joke...I'm sorry if I offended the good people at...Dunkin Donuts?

[NJDeadzone]

the dunkin donut's guy looks like saddam...

[JudgeDredd]

At 3/17/03 11:42 AM, Freakapotimus wrote: Helping cops keep doughnuts on wireless data

'dammit. Next they'll be able to krak my 1023.14159265358979-bit encryption...

** schemes **

1_0

[TheShrike]

I don't care if the cops have it... But the NSA having it makes me shiver

[karasz]

At 3/17/03 11:42 AM, Freakapotimus wrote: Helping cops keep tabs on wireless data
By Ben Charny
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 17, 2003, 7:11 AM PT

NEW ORLEANS - Cops are finally getting to see firsthand whether pager-favoring, tech-savvy criminals have upgraded to America's newest wireless networks.
Until recently, police conducting wiretaps on services such as mMode from AT&T Wireless and PCS Vision from Sprint PCS could intercept only phone conversations. Millions of instant messages or photos were off limits to crime fighters' wiretaps because the necessary eavesdropping technology didn't exist.

Now, VeriSign, Cisco Systems and other members of 2-month-old Global LI Industry Forum (LI stands for "lawful interception") say they have finally developed the answer, beginning with VeriSign's NetDiscovery service, which was introduced at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show here Monday.

Full story at http://msn-cnet.com.com/2100-1039-992832.html

another great idea brought to u by the PATRIOT ACT: destroying your bill of rights since 2001...

yeah before u know it, THEY will know EVERYTHING you do... but it will be ok, cuz if u speak out then u will be 'taken care of'...

[TheShrike]

At 3/17/03 10:46 PM, karasz wrote: another great idea brought to u by the PATRIOT ACT: destroying your bill of rights since 2001...

yeah before u know it, THEY will know EVERYTHING you do... but it will be ok, cuz if u speak out then u will be 'taken care of'...

*Looks left*
*Looks right*
*Starts clapping quietly*

[JudgeDredd]

At 3/17/03 10:48 PM, TheShrike wrote:

*Looks left*
*Looks right*
*Starts clapping quietly*

* Looks towards clapping sound *
* Decodes Tempo Frequency Into Morse *

[PreacherJ]

At 3/17/03 10:53 PM, Judge_DREDD wrote:

At 3/17/03 10:48 PM, TheShrike wrote:

*Looks left*
*Looks right*
*Starts clapping quietly*

* Looks towards clapping sound *
* Decodes Tempo Frequency Into Morse *

*Broadcasts secret morse code messages to the government's National Council of the Destruction and Defamation of Idiocy, calling in an airstrike to annihilate the Insane Clown Posse*

(Speaks into Earphone Walkie-Talkie)
Roger that, tango six-niner.
(Dramatic Pause)
Yes, The order came directly from Dredd, sir.
(Pause)
Yes, it was decoded by The Shrike.
(Pause)
Understood.
*Looks toward Shrike and Judge Dredd*
Good job, troops. We have a confirmed kill. Move out.

[HighWing]

What bothers me more about having this kind of technology is what happens when a disgruntled cop sells it to the wrong person and suddenly this technology is put in the wrong hands. Just the fact that it's out there now means crackers are probably already trying to get their hands on it.

[karasz]

At 3/18/03 01:47 PM, HighWing wrote: What bothers me more about having this kind of technology is what happens when a disgruntled cop sells it to the wrong person and suddenly this technology is put in the wrong hands. Just the fact that it's out there now means crackers are probably already trying to get their hands on it.

EXACTLY... although hell it doesnt even have to be a disgruntled cop... all we need is john ashcroft to be the AG for another few years and another attack and we will be known as the United States of 1984... we are so fucked... Canada HERE I COME...

[clownfish]

Almost all of these systems that are not supposed to fall in the wrong hands will eventually end up as a fun little machine sold at every toys'r us store in the country. Thank you very much for violating our privacy you contributing-to-a-better-police-system idiots. Everyone will have one in about five years, and you will have no private life at all... Better get my share of privacy while it lasts...

[KrasnoZnamonec]

i think by 19.03.2003 FBI or some other agency will start listening to any sitizen that came from iraq or naboring country

[clownfish]

Yeah, just like there was a sudden outbreak of some disease in that area, so all the people from the Middle East have to be checked extra. Oh, no... Not at all suspicious... I wonder if the FBI spread the disease, or it just doesn't exist at all.