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Re: USA Today on encryption; FBI's Louis Freeh responds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Sat Sep 27 11:02:59 1997
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 08:48:17 -0400
To: Nathaniel Daw <daw@cs.cmu.edu>
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Nathaniel Daw asked about government wiretapping patterns.
For a recent survey see the 1996 wiretapping report by the
Administrative Office of US Courts which includes a summary
for 1992-96:
http://jya.com/wire97.htm
This is an annual wiretapping report to Congress entitled:
"1996 Wiretap Report, a Report of the Director of the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts on Applications for Orders
Authorizing or Approving the Interception of Wire, Oral, or
Electronic Communications, submitted to Congress."
Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2519(2) mandates the submission of wiretap
reports by prosecuting officials in January of each year.
One of the best overviews of electronic surveillance and wiretapping
activities is provided in the NRC report on cryptography. It describes
the various agencies involved, their mandates and mutual assistance
agreements (such as that between NSA and the FBI):
http://jya.com/nrcnidx.htm
There are images of wiretap tables from the NRC report at:
http://jya.com/nrcd1.jpg
http://jya.com/nrcd2.jpg
Finally, there is a compilation of electronic surveillance reports put
out by the Office of Technology Assessment from 1972 to 1996:
http://jya.com/esnoop.htm
