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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: Anyone heard of UK proposal to licence BBSes?
- In-Reply-To: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.004611.26685@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <C10EHL.E2n@demon.co.uk> <1993Jan21.175643.21087@orbital.demon.co.uk> <6543@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> <jrk.727729306@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:46:11 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <jrk.727729306@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>, jrk@sys (Richard Kennaway) writes:
- >In <6543@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:
- >>This guy must have a real problem with the telephone system - imagine all
- >>those crooks can actually use a phone to talk to each other and plan crimes
- >>- obviously should be regulated :-)
-
- >Have the UK security
- >authorities tried to get similar statutory right of access to
- >telecommunications?
-
- Rumor on the net tells this is covered already, ie. that UK has been a
- great buyer of telephone switching equipment with many more
- eavesdropping lines than elsewhere.
-
- (yes, eavesdropping is normally built into the equipment for "testing
- purposes", it's just that there's normally apparently only a few lines
- per exchange which wasn't enough for UK purposes)
-
- Of course this would probably be covered by the official secrets act so
- it might be a bit difficult to get information about in the UK.
-
- But this is just rumor from alt.conspiracy I think, sorry for
- circulating it. Someone can probably tell more, I added alt.conspiracy.
-
- //Jyrki
-