IP: Documents Show FBI Web Surveillance

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 18:51:42 -0400
> From: Ian Hopper <ihopper () ap org>
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: For IP
>
> Dave, FYI:
>
> Documents Show FBI Web Surveillance
>
> By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press Writer
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI (news - web sites) has used Internet
> eavesdropping tools to track fugitives, drug dealers, extortionists,
> computer hackers and suspected foreign intelligence agents, documents
> show.
>
> The documents, obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of
> Information Act, also detail how the FBI scurried last year to prove it
> wasn't ``randomly looking at everyone's e-mail'' once its Web
> surveillance practices came under attack.
>
> The FBI records show the agency used its controversial Carnivore system
> 13 times between October 1999 and August 2000 to monitor Internet
> communications, and a similar device, Etherpeek, another 11 times.
>
> ...
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010504/pl/internet_eavesdropping_1.html



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