an intercept system provides more effective and more efficient compliance with legal intercept warrants . the intercept system can provide any combination of operations that include near - real - time intercept , capture of intercepted data in structured authenticated form , clear text intercept for communications where there is access to encryption keys , cipher text intercept for communications where there is no access to encryption keys , provision of transactional logs to the authorized agency , interception without altering the operation of the target services , and encryption of stored intercepted information .