IP: read it and weep FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet
> Fox News
> Friday, October 26, 2001
> By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
> WASHINGTON
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html
>
> The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to broaden considerably
> its ability to tap into Internet traffic in its quest to root out
> terrorists, going beyond even the new measures afforded in anti-terror
> legislation passed by the House today, according to lawyers familiar
> with the FBI's plans.
>
> Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington D.C.-based Steptoe &
> Johnson and a former general consul to National Security Agency, said
> the FBI has plans to change the architecture of the Internet and route
> traffic through central servers that it would be able to monitor
> e-mail more easily.

Nothing like setting for a vulnerable Internet djf



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