[privacy] FBI Turns to Broad New Wiretap Method

[Shyaam]

Well, we are ready to blame the law enforcements before they even take an
initiative to save the nation :-)... How will the nation be in safe hands if
they donot trust the ones who are trying to save it...


On 1/30/07, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
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> Via C|Net News.
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> [snip]
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> The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance
> technique
> that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been
> disclosed.
>
> Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents
> conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of
> thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to
> current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried
> for
> names, e-mail addresses or keywords.
>
> Such a technique is broader and potentially more intrusive than the FBI's
> Carnivore surveillance system, later renamed DCS1000. It raises concerns
> similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that the
> National Security Agency is said to have done, according to documents that
> have surfaced in one federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's
> legally permissible.
>
> Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach.
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> [snip]
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> More:
> http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6154457.html
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> - - ferg
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> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
Shyaam Sundhar R.S., GREM, GHTQ, GWAS
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