tapping hardware? (was re: Mark Abene (Phiber Optik) sentenced)

["Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@paycheck.cygnus.com>]

>> o the charges against MoD marked the first use of wiretaps to record both
>>   conversations and datacomm by accused hackers.
	This I find quite interesting... As a guess, if I were to
attempt such monitoring, I would start with a pair of off-the-shelf
modems, but I don't know the details of modern compression (v.42) or
wire encodings to know how easy that would be to make work...
	Anyone have more details on how the tap was accomplished?

				_Mark_ <eichin@paycheck.cygnus.com>
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