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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/wiretap

More interesting is the question: "Who else has hacked into/has access to our phone call recordings?" JUST Foreign Spies? Commercial Spies? IDENTITY THEFT gangs? Terrorist networks?

After all, it says it runs on Windows... So *that* means that it's already guaranteed insecure! ( And it can't play a MP3 without trashing your network connection, but that's another story... )

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What DCSNet Can Do

Together, the surveillance systems let FBI agents play back recordings even as they are being captured (like TiVo), create master wiretap files, send digital recordings to translators, track the rough location of targets in real time using cell-tower information, and even stream intercepts outward to mobile surveillance vans.

FBI wiretapping rooms in field offices and undercover locations around the country are connected through a private, encrypted backbone that is separated from the internet. Sprint runs it on the government's behalf.

The network allows an FBI agent in New York, for example, to remotely set up a wiretap on a cell phone based in Sacramento, California, and immediately learn the phone's location, then begin receiving conversations, text messages and voicemail pass codes in New York. With a few keystrokes, the agent can route the recordings to language specialists for translation.

The KGB and Stasi would be proud!