[comp.dcom.telecom] Secret Service Surpasses ANI as Threat to Privacy

jpalmer@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Jim Palmer) (03/14/90)

      from _The San Francisco Chronicle_, Monday March 12, 1990, 
      quoted from Herb Caen's column:
 
"...Kind of scary: At around 8 a.m. on the day Pres. Bush spoke at the
Commonwealth Club, Phyllis Sherman phoned the S.F. Hilton to find out
the closest Muni stop [public transit], figuring it would be
impossible to drive there.  Although she gave neither her name nor
phone number, she got a phone call at 9:30 a.m. from a Secret Service
agent who addressed her by name and asked 'What was the nature of your
call?'  He accepted her explanation, adding, 'Sorry, but we're
checking out something I can't discuss.'  Now that's almost as
intriguing as the eavesdropping.  Pardon.  Surveillance ..." [endquote]
 
Boggles the mind.  Any guesses as to how it was done? ANI to the ^Nth!
But why was an hour and a half needed before followup?
 
P.S. For the SecServ: I'm clean, just curious. Really, I am, check the
files ;-)


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