CSPAN2 Washington Journal Brian Hochman October 29, 2022
So williams was a stockbroker in the state of california who concocted somewhat elaborate scheme to. Listen to Corporate Communications and, make insider trades based on the intelligence that hed gathered. He turns out to be the First American ever for tapping a wire. And this was in the year 1864. And he was imprisoned or convicted a statute written in the state of california, 1862, which means that the practice of wiretap being and laws against it, prohibitions against it, date back all the way to the age of the telegraph. The age of the civil war. When i discovered this. Eight years ago, i ...