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FC: FBI reportedly wants to concentrate traffic, tap entire Internet
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 22:19:36 -0700
http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%3D605%26a%253D16678,00.asp October 18, 2001 Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps By Max SmetannikovExpect 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.
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