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MIKE Electronic GODWIN Staff Counsel Frontier Foundation t is helpful when reading Denning's comprehensive (if ill-considered) defense of the DOJ/FBI digital telephony initiative, to give thought to the things she omits to mention, and to the questions she does not a s k . ' ~ Throughout her article, Denning accepts uncritically the FBI's appraisal of the problems, in several respects: 1. Denning does not name a single case in which the difficulties supposedly created by digital telephone networks, or by the difficulty in capturing a conversation on, say, CompuServe, has led to a failed investigation or prosecution. (She merely refers to some unnamed cases in which wiretaps were not sought or implemented.) 2. Denning equates the costs of implementing digital wiretapping capability by communications providers with the costs of individual investigations. Since we're paying for law enforcement anyway, she argues, why not pay for this? But there is no reason to believe the costs of implementing comprehensive wiretappability on all communications services (from the Regional Bell Operating Companies to the smallest BBSs and PBXs) is at all comparable to the collective costs of the investigations in which wiretapping is authorized each year. I find it far easier
Communications of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Mar 1, 1993
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