At 5:01 AM +0000 7/26/00, Anonymous wrote:
>By John Schwartz
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Tuesday , July 25, 2000 ; E01
>
>Federal law enforcement officials defended "Carnivore"--the FBI's
>controversial Internet wiretap system--through more than two
>acrimonious hours of grilling by Democratic and Republican lawmakers
>yesterday, painting a chilling picture of an Internet that would
>become a safe haven for crooks and terrorists without proper
>surveillance.
>
>"Criminals use computers to send child pornography to each other
>using anonymous, encrypted communications," FBI Assistant Director
>Donald M. Kerr told the House Judiciary subcommittee on the
>Constitution.
The FBI has said that Carnivore will only be directed at specific
targets of a wiretap order.
How, then, does it do a damned thing with "anonymous, encrypted
communications"?
This is just one of many failures in logic.
--Tim May
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