Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

2002 US Wiretap Report

Posted by michael on from the STU-III dept.

GMontag writes "Full report:2002 WIRETAP REPORT Administrative Office of the United States Courts Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Director I especially like this part: 'Public Law 106-197 amended 18 U.S.C. 2519(2)(b) to require that reporting should reflect the number of wiretap applications granted for which encryption was encountered and whether such encryption prevented law enforcement officials from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted pursuant to the court orders. Encryption was reported to have been encountered in 16 wiretaps terminated in 2002 and in 18 wiretaps terminated in calendar year 2001 or earlier but reported for the first time in 2002; however, in none of these cases was encryption reported to have prevented law enforcement officials from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted.'"

1 of 264 comments (clear)

  1. OT: Announcement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As I announced before week, I'm working on new sound driver +
    libraries for Linux. I renamed project from 'The Ultra Sound Driver' to
    'Enhanced Linux Sound Architecture' (ELSA). Previous name is used as
    nickname. New name better describe new project. You can reach this
    project at http://ultra.jcu.cz.
    I released today version 0.0.3 of driver which have more clean
    sources and supports two soundcards AMD InterWave (GUS PnP etc.) and
    ESS AudioDriver ES1688 (GUS Extreme etc.). There is supported only MIXER
    & PCM - both emulated OSS/Lite devices, but native MIXER API is totaly
    new. Applications which works for example: Quake, RealVideo 5.0b3,
    mpg123, RAT, etc... I strongly need some response from general kernel
    hackers if I'm on right way. Please, look shortly to current sources.
    I welcome any response to my code.
    Alan Cox notices that Thomas Sailer works on some modularized
    sound driver, too. Unfortunately Thomas Sailer don't reply to my
    messages, so I don't know anything about his work. I don't know if his
    driver is only recoded OSS/Lite. ELSA driver is new work which want
    solve all coding abnormalities which OSS/Lite have.
    Project needs some other programmers to done basic work in some
    acceptable time. I need help with ELSA Kernel API & code (recoding
    low-level code from OSS/Lite), ELSA Library API & code and with ELSA
    Configuration Manager to make setup easier for final users which don't
    know anything about /etc/conf.modules, kerneld, initrd etc.. If you have
    interrest - you can found on mentioned URL http://ultra.jcu.cz two mailing
    lists for developing & supporting ELSA project. On this URL is also plan
    for ELSA project (look to API button). Mail me any notice, question,
    request etc.