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Decreased security through monitoringDecreased security through monitoringPosted Jul 17, 2003 19:05 UTC (Thu) by acorliss (subscriber, #3710)Parent article: Decreased security through monitoring As much as I like Cringely I would take this with a huge grain of salt. While I can't vouch for how things are done in the lower 48, I have (and am) worked at both of the largest telcos in Alaska, the first time as a Lucent 5ESS tech, no less. The federal guidelines don't mandate a specific methodology/platform/whatever to comply, they only detail what services telcos must provide to law enforcement. When I worked on the 5ESS it would took phone calls and paper trails to activate a trace and/or tap on line activity. The reports were delivered on paper or magentic media. All human bandwidth. I'm corporate IT sys-admin for the state's largest telco now, but I'd be real surpised if we had an exposed Sun box dishing that info out (not least of which the fact that we're primarily an IBM shop ;-). From what I understand, our NOC still gets human visitors when they're doing active tapping (or we'll psuedo-conference an agency phone in). I'll look forward to seeing some lower-48 responses to this article, but my initial reaction is that it's being blown a bit out of proportion. --Arthur Corliss
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