 In December 2001 , a Fox News report raised the concern that wiretapping equipment provided by Comverse Infosys to the U.S. government for electronic eavesdropping may have been vulnerable , as these systems allegedly had a back door through which the wiretaps could be intercepted by unauthorized parties . Fox News reporter Carl Cameron said there was no reason to believe the Israeli government was implicated , but that " a classified top @-@ secret investigation is underway " . A March 2002 story by Le Monde recapped the Fox report and concluded : " Comverse is suspected of having introduced into its systems of the ' catch gates ' in order to ' intercept , record and store ' these wire @-@ taps . This hardware would render the ' listener ' himself ' listened to ' . " Fox News did not pursue the allegations , and in the years since , there have been no legal or commercial actions of any type taken against Comverse by the FBI or any other branch of the US Government related to data access and security issues . While no real evidence has been presented against Comverse or Verint , the allegations have become a favorite topic of conspiracy theorists . 
