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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: MCI E-mail Snooping
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.171040.21307@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Keywords: Corporate Computing, September 1992
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1992Sep11.162036.3932@dcatlas.dot.gov> <1992Sep11.184731.10583@PacBell.COM> <BuFKv7.FBJ@rice.edu> <1992Sep12.125558.8707@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:10:40 GMT
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- morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
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- >The most
- >common example of this "performance-based" exemption is the well-known
- >fact that the phone company may 'listen' to a conversation if they are
- >checking line quality.
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- An aside: I'm told that the phone company line checker now usually
- "scrambles" conversations so that they are not understandable.
-
- - Carl
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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