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Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to be Evaded, Study Finds

harold@hallikainen.com
30 Nov 2005 08:31:46 -0800

From Benton Communications Headlines (http://www.benton.org).

SECURITY FLAW ALLOWS WIRETAPS TO BE EVADED, STUDY FINDS [SOURCE: New
York Times, AUTHOR: John Schwartz and John Markoff]

The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap
telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped
to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer
security experts who studied the system. It is also possible to
falsify the numbers dialed, they said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/national/30tap.html?pagewanted=all
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This is the first I'd heard of the "c-tone'.

Harold

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