"Computer Security Experts Question Internet Wiretaps" New York Times (12/05/00) P. A14; Schwartz, John The furor surrounding the FBI's Carnivore email monitoring system intensified Monday after a high-profile group of computer security experts released a report that raises new privacy and legal questions about the Internet wiretapping system. The report also concluded that a Justice Department-sponsored review of Carnivore by the Illinois Institute of Technology's Research Institute was limited in nature and "simply cannot support a conclusion that Carnivore is correct, safe, or always consistent with legal limitations." The group of security experts said that the Illinois review failed to conduct a true search for programming flaws. The Illinois review was also scrutinized by the Privacy Foundation, which concluded that Carnivore has "technical deficiencies" that must be addressed. The head of the Illinois review, Henry H. Perritt Jr., agrees that Carnivore should be subjected to periodic review and that wiretapping law must be updated to address digital technologies. -- archive: http://theMezz.com/cybercrime/archive unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://theMezz.com/alerts ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
