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...<br><br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 1/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fergie</b> <<a href="mailto:fergdawg@netzero.net">fergdawg@netzero.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Via C|Net News.<br><br>[snip]<br><br>The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique<br>that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been
<br>disclosed.<br><br>Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents<br>conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of<br>thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to
<br>current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried for<br>names, e-mail addresses or keywords.<br><br>Such a technique is broader and potentially more intrusive than the FBI's<br>Carnivore surveillance system, later renamed DCS1000. It raises concerns
<br>similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that the<br>National Security Agency is said to have done, according to documents that<br>have surfaced in one federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's
<br>legally permissible.<br><br>Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach.<br><br>[snip]<br><br>More:<br><a href="http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6154457.html">http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6154457.html</a><br><br>- - ferg<br>
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<br><br>--<br>"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson<br> Engineering Architecture for the Internet<br> fergdawg(at)netzero.net<br> ferg's tech blog: <a href="http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/">http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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