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IP: Another week, another FBI embarrassment: == Good Morning Silicon Valley Fri Oct 06 12:00:17 EDT 2000
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 16:56:10 -0400
Another week, another FBI embarrassment: Some heavily...edited <http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html>FBI documents, released to the Electronic Privacy Information Centre thanks to <http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_pr.html>a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, reveal that the FBI's Carnivore surveillance technology is capable of monitoring quite a bit more than just e-mail traffic. Of the material released by the FBI, nearly 200 pages were withheld in full. Another 400 pages were redacted, many <http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/omnivorecapabilities3.html>completely except for the page numbers. Still, in spite of these efforts at concealment certain contentious details have emerged, among them Carnivore's ability to reconstruct Web pages viewed by a subject, and a planned effort to enable the device to <http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/dragonnet.html>capture voice-over-Web communications. These revelations certainly do little to reassure us of the FBI's integrity in this matter. Indeed, it would seem the agency's assertion that it would restrain its use of the technology to a simple review of e-mail headers is at best questionable. Coming as it does in the aftermath of <http://cryptome.org/carnivore-mask.htm>other Justice Department embarrassments, one has to wonder about the truthfullness of the agency's repeated assertions that it's trying to be upfront about Carnivore.
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