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[Raven] Clarifying questions
I would appreciate some help on the underlying technological issues (not
being an expert). I know this is intended as a policy discussion, but it's
hard to discuss it intelligently without some kind of technical grounding.
I have heard that there's two kinds of wiretap. One (I think a
"trap-and-trace"?) just provides law enforcement with traffic analysis type
information (call endpoints, times, etc). The TCP/IP equivalent is getting
packet headers only. The second provides actual content of the call (or
connection or whatever). The second kind of wiretap authorization is more
difficult to get (at least in the US).
Firstly: is this correct?
Secondly: are we talking about both here, or which one? The issues are
rather different.
It would be very helpful if someone knowledgeable could provide a brief
summary of the working group issues that brought this up. (I looked at the
Megaco documents but could not quickly reverse engineer this concern back out
of them).
Stuart.
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