alternate legal wiretaps tuinstra signal ece clarkson edu soe writes it would be a strong incentive as vesselin points out for more police agencies to go rogue and try to get keys through more efficient but less constitutional means notice what the release said q suppose a law enforcement agency is conducting a wiretap on a drug smuggling ring and intercepts a conversation encrypted using the device what would they have to do to decipher the message a they would have to obtain legal authorization normally a court order to do the wiretap in the first place the clear implication is that there are legal authorizations other than a court order just how leaky are these and who knows what s in those pages that authorized the nsa there i was a cryptologic tech in the us navy ctrsn nothing big all spooks in the navy are required to know the gist of ussid the navy way of naming a particular presidential executive order it outlines what spooks can and can t do with respect to the privacy of us nationals the following information is of course unclassified the whole issue hangs about what you mean by wiretap if the signal can be detected by non intrusive means like radio listening then it may be recorded and it may be analyzed analyzed means that it may be either deciphered and or radio location may be used to locate the transmitter the catch is this any and all record of the signal and its derivatives may only be kept for a maximum of days after which they are destroyed unless permission is obtained from the us attorney general to keep them didn t you ever wonder how coast guard cutters find those drug runners in all those tens of thousands of square miles of sea even in the dark rick miller rick ee uwm edu ricxjo discus mil wi us ricxjo muelisto send a postcard get one back enposxtigu bildkarton kaj vi ricevos alion rick miller woods muskego wis usa
