Hello, Michiel...

Dec 16, 2002 at 13:43, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Jerry Schwartz:


 SH>>>> The content of electronic communications over telephone lines
 SH>>>> has been used in the United States to convict several sysops,

 MvdV>>> Was it done by actually tapping the lines or was it
 MvdV>>> done by just reading the echomail?

 JS>> Neither, in the sense that you mean. In the cases I've
 JS>> heard of, traffic wasn't intercepted - either the drives
 JS>> themselves were searched, or there was a willing
 JS>> participant in a sting operation.

 MvdV> I see. So Steven has mislead us. The "over telephone
lines" part is 
 MvdV> completely irrelevant here.

He may know of cases I don't.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz{at}comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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