Re: Wiretap Operation Sheds Light on LAPD Tactics

[Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>]

At 12:23 AM 12/8/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>If it is Monday, December 7, 1998, you can go to
>http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/topstory.html and read about how
>Los Angeles police wiretapped a small cellular phone service provider
>because his policies were too helpful for drug dealers.  He didn't try
>hard enough to verify customer names, he sold cell phones with built in
>scramblers, he allowed customers to change phones and numbers easily.

So when are the cops going after Radio Shack, Sprint, Omnipoint, Bell
Atlantic, etc that sell card-fed phones in the New York area?

DCF