IP: Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
> Subject: Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps
>
>
> October 18, 2001
> Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps
> By  Max Smetannikov
>
> Expect the FBI to expand its Internet wiretapping program, says a
> source familiar with the plan.
>
> Stewart Baker, a partner with law firm Steptoe & Johnson, is a former
> general counsel to the National Security Agency. He says the FBI has
> spent the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture
> that would concentrate Internet traffic in several key locations
> where all packets, not just e-mail, could be wiretapped. It is now
> planning to begin implementing this architecture using the powers it
> has under existing wiretapping laws.
>
> http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D605%2526a%253D16678,00.asp


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