In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Meyer Wolfs
heim writes:
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>On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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>> According to the AP, the ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act
>> request for information on Carnivore. See http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n07
>1400a.html
>> and http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-FBI-Snooping.html
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>I notice in this article that one of their programs is
>"EtherPeek". Assuming this is the same as the well known ethernet sniffer,
>you don't need to file for FOIA to learn about it.
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>http://www.aggroup.com/
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>Additionally, I don't believe the source is available, and I would doubt
>the FBI would have the source for it. But, assuming that a) this is the
>same product that the FBI is using, and b) they were given the source
>under the agreement that it not be disclosed, could the FOIA force the
>disclosure of this code?
Probably not.
I was trying to avoid quoting the whole NY Times article; if you don't
subscribe to the Times, you can find the same article (I think) at
http://www.accesswaco.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/Washington/AP.V0971.AP-FBI-Snooping.html
Anyway -- according to the story, there are a number of exemptions in
the Freedom of Information Act that might prevent disclosure of the
source code. But the FOIA request was also for any internal FBI
documents on the subject; those are much less likely to be protected by
the exemptions.
--Steve Bellovin
