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From: eli@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
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Subject: Re: A comment on Radar and Telephones
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 10:42:53 EDT
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> In article <2493@pegasus.UUCP> mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski) writes:
> >Now, how is looking for "interesting speeds" different from the
> >government's (past/present?) policy of scanning international calls
> >for "interesting words"?  
> 
> You know when you get your drivers lic. that the police have radar
> guns and they use them.  Thus when you see a police car beside the road
> you know you are being spied on.  However, with wiretaps you have no
> way of knowing when you are being spied on.
> 
> 					Bjorn Benson

The thing thats been interesting for me is that one could say that using
a telephone is a privilege and not a right (you don't own the telephone lines
that your call goes over) and then use that as justification for wiretapping.
Sure, they don't do that now, but whose stopping them if they start using
excuses like this?
-eli
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