Matt's testimony is http://www.crypto.com/papers/opentap.html ,
including a paper by Steve Bellovin and Matt Blaze on "Open Source
Wiretapping".
FBI PRESSURED TO DISCLOSE SYSTEM CODE - [Wall Street Journal, A6.]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is under increasing pressure to
disclose the secret blueprints for its Carnivore surveillance system so
independent technical experts can verify that the software monitors only
the Internet communications of criminal suspects.
Despite mounting calls to permit such reviews, FBI officials maintain
that disclosing the software's source code would allow hackers to find ways
to defeat the system.
The officials also argue that such a disclosure could violate copyright
protections because Carnivore includes portions of software code from a
product licensed to the government by an unidentified vendor.
Congress is expected to press senior FBI officials on the subject at a
hearing
Monday before a House Judiciary Committee panel led by Florida Republican
Rep. Charles T. Canady.
One scheduled witness for the hearing, Matthew Blaze, an AT&T [Labs]
researcher,
says the FBI's failure to fully disclose how Carnivore works has contributed
to an "atmosphere of mistrust and confusion." In an essay published on the
Internet last week, Blaze wrote that releasing the system's source code
"is a critical first step in assuring the public that Carnivore can at least
be configured to do what it is supposed to do."
