FC: Carnivore goes global: Korean police Net-taps jump 24 percent

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[The Korean government is reportedly blaming this on those nefarious 
Internet hackers/pirates/pornographers. One side effect of FOIA requests 
for the FBI's Carnivore source -- a worthy idea -- might be that other 
countries upgrade their spyware. :) --Declan]

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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/03/23/200103230032.asp

   Wiretappings by investigative agencies into PC (personal computer)
   communications networks, including the Internet, are rapidly
   increasing, a government tally showed yesterday.

   According to statistics unveiled by the Ministry of Information and
   Communication, the number of wiretapping cases by investigating
   authorities such as prosecutors and police in the PC communications
   field stood at 224 last year, up 23.8 percent from 181 a year earlier.

   In particular, the number of cases, in which PC communications service
   providers rendered assistance to investigators' wiretapping, increased
   222.3 percent from 1,075 to 3,465 year-on-year.

   Eavesdropping on wired and wireless telecommunications decreased 26.4
   percent from 3,234 in 1999 to 2,380 in 2000, but cases of telecom
   operators providing data on communications to authorities such as
   subscriber names, addresses and communications records increased 3.9
   percent from 154,390 to 160,485 during the period.

   [...]




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