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                Date: 1998-09-15
                 
                 
                USA: GSM/Lauschangriff auf Eis gelegt
                
                 
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      q/depesche 98.9.15/2 
related    98.9.13/3 
 
USA: GSM/Lauschangriff auf Eis gelegt 
 
Die Sehnsucht aller Lauschangriffs/Behörden in DE, AT & dem 
Rest der Welt gilt einer direkten Verbindung zu den 
GSM/Netzen, wobei die millionenschweren Kosten der jeweilige 
Betreiber tragen soll.    
 
Das FBI ist damit vorerst ab/geblitzt. Die 
US/Fernmeldebehörde FCC hat den Gesetzentwurf mit dem 
klangvollen Kürzel CALEA bis Juni 2000 auf Eis gelegt.  
 
postscrypt: Der unten zitierte Artikel aus der NYtimes 
stammt von John Markoff, dessen Person am Sonntag Grund für 
die Hack/attack auf die genannte Zeitung war. 
 
 
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The Federal Communications Commission on Friday, September 
11 delayed until June 30, 2000 the effective date of CALEA, 
the 1994 law requiring telephone carriers to modify their 
equipment to ensure law enforcement agencies can continue to 
carry out wiretaps and other surveillances on digital 
switches. The law had been scheduled to take effect on 
October 25 of this year.  The Commission gave carriers an 
additional 20 months to complete modifications needed to 
preserve law enforcement capabilities.  The FCC delayed 
indefinitely implementation of certain expansions in wiretap 
capability sought by the FBI, including the ability to track 
wireless phone users, until the Commission could undertake a 
separate inquiry into the privacy implications of the FBI's 
demands. 
 
The Commission's order and supporting documents are on-line 
in full text at http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/FCC911.html
                   
 
The order means that carriers will not be required -- yet 
anyhow -- to build location tracking capabilities and 
capabilities to intercept packet-switch communications until 
the Commission has a chance to rule on the privacy issues at 
stake.  CDT was concerned that the FBI was using the looming 
deadline to force carriers to build capabilities that were 
not required by the act and which were under challenge.  
This ruling should freeze the development of the special 
surveillance features that the FBI wanted until the privacy 
issues are resolved. 
 
The extension is an important step, a recognition that 
compliance with CALEA is not possible at this time given the 
confusion and delay generated by the FBI's demands, but now 
we are in for a big fight over the privacy issues. 
... 
The FBI is still pushing to turn wireless phones into 
location tracking devices.  We are certain that Congress did 
not intend to turn cell phones into tracking devices.  But 
regardless of how the Commission ultimately rules on this 
one, Congress should increase the legal standard for 
government access to location information, since currently 
the standard for ordering a carrier to turn on a tracking 
capability is too low, allowing the government to track 
people who are not even suspected of criminal conduct. 
 
Full background on CALEA 
http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/
    
                 
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