OT: Re: Illegal Possession of Controlled Devices (was:

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Sep 13 13:38:00 2002

> > AFAIK it is already illegal in the US of A to mess with any
> > eavesdropping equipment of the police/FBI/.gov you may happen to find
> > in, on or connected to your property (yeah right - and the big bad drug
> > lord _of_ _course_ leaves the microphone in his living room in place and
> > keeps discussing his drug shipments from south amerika there - after
> > all, he's a law abiding criminal *manical laughter*). Or so I've read
> > somewhere.
> Hell, if I ever find something (meaning they did a poor job of hiding it),
> how do I know it was the 'police' and not some criminal that broke in and
> installed it? In any matter, it's going to quietly get smashed with a big
> enough hammer... or maybe just retasked to listening to the exhaust pipe
> of my car.

How do you smash it with a big hammer QUIETLY?!?

That just gets new ones installed. Proper way to handle it is with a
prepared script, and some tape loops of background noises and
conversation.
Received on Fri Sep 13 2002 - 13:38:00 BST