Where is text of wiretap bill

Did the wiretap bill, as passed, contain those magic words:
"or other legal authority"?

Where can I get the text of the wiretap bill?


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> "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> writes:
> Did the wiretap bill, as passed, contain those magic words:
> "or other legal authority"?

Yes, it does, repeatedly.

          SEC. 103. ASSISTANCE CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS.
            (a) Capability Requirements: Except as provided in subsections
          (b), (c), and (d) of this section and sections 108(a)  and 109(b)
          and (d), a telecommunications carrier shall ensure that its
          equipment, facilities, or services that provide a customer or
          subscriber with the ability to originate, terminate, or direct
          communications are capable of--
                (1) expeditiously isolating and enabling the government,
              pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to
              intercept, to the exclusion of any other communications, all
              wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier
...
                (2) expeditiously isolating and enabling the government,
              pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to
              access call-identifying information that is reasonably
              available to the carrier--
...
                (3) delivering intercepted communications and
              call-identifying information to the government, pursuant to a
              court order or other lawful authorization, in a format such
              that they may be transmitted by means of equipment, facilities,
...
          SEC. 105. SYSTEMS SECURITY AND INTEGRITY.
            A telecommunications carrier shall ensure that any interception
          of communications or access to call-identifying information
          effected within its switching premises can be activated only in
          accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization and
          with the affirmative intervention of an individual officer or

> Where can I get the text of the wiretap bill?

From the Library of Congress' "Thomas" server: http://thomas.loc.gov/
Look for either SB 2375 (Senate) or HR 4922 (House).

An assistant director of the FBI, William Baugh, spoke recently at the ICI
conference in DC.  He said he hoped American industry would be cooperative
in making the voluntary compliance with TESSERA or other GAK widespread,
because if it doesn't happen then they would need to come back and get
more Congressional action, and "we found the coercive solution we had to
use for Digital Telephony very draining."

If <that> doesn't get them your sympathy, what will?

	Jim Gillogly
	Sterday, 15 Winterfilth S.R. 1995, 15:18

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In list.cypherpunks, jim@acm.org writes:

> An assistant director of the FBI, William Baugh, spoke recently at the ICI
> conference in DC.  He said he hoped American industry would be cooperative
> in making the voluntary compliance with TESSERA or other GAK widespread,
> because if it doesn't happen then they would need to come back and get
> more Congressional action, and "we found the coercive solution we had to
> use for Digital Telephony very draining."

I shouldn't be surprised to see this, but it does strike me as pretty
blatant.  Aren't the Fibbies supposed to be putting a less threatening
spin on this stuff?  Or are the gloves coming off?
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> In list.cypherpunks, jim@acm.org writes:

>> An assistant director of the FBI, William Baugh, spoke recently at the ICI
>> conference in DC.  He said he hoped American industry would be cooperative
>> in making the voluntary compliance with TESSERA or other GAK widespread,
>> because if it doesn't happen then they would need to come back and get
>> more Congressional action, and "we found the coercive solution we had to
>> use for Digital Telephony very draining."

> roy@cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:

> I shouldn't be surprised to see this, but it does strike me as pretty
> blatant.  Aren't the Fibbies supposed to be putting a less threatening
> spin on this stuff?  Or are the gloves coming off?

The latter, assuming the gloves were ever on.  In the previous day's
presentations at the ICI conference, FBI Dir. Freeh spoke about the need
for the FBI to get not only decryptable wiretaps but also decryptable
files, and pointed out that some of the proposals about limited-duration
keys would not let them decrypt files they seized with a legal warrant if
those files had been encrypted earlier than the warrant date.  He took Q&A
for a while, and I got to ask the first Q:

Q: Does the Bureau favor making escrowed keys mandatory for domestic
   encryption?
A: Not at this time.  We hope that voluntary compliance and cooperation
   from industry will result in companies developing a single system for
   export and for domestic use.  If this does not happen, then we will
   need to take further action.

	Jim Gillogly
	16 Winterfilth S.R. 1995, 12:33