Wiretapping: a secret history
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The Threat to Privacy
After the war a, this is a period in which the telegraph system after the mid 18 sixties, begins to reach a kind of saturation point. A, it's in this period that crooked signal operators and crooks begin tapping ines for criminal purposes. What's interesting is that americans in this period did not regard the criminal act of wire tapping as a threat to privacy - another story we can talk about.
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