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Bloomberg News. Washington, Sept. 7 -- Vinton Cerf, widely regarded
as the "father of the Internet", indicated that he believes the FBI
uses its Carnivore surveillance system without violating Internet
users' privacy, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.
Cerf, a senior vice president at WorldCom Inc., also told a Senate
subcommittee that he opposes efforts to force the FBI to disclose
the
blueprints for Carnivore, the Journal said. Cerf co-invented parts
of the Internet's underlying technology in 1973.
The FBI can use the Carnivore software system to monitor Internet
traffic and capture e-mail from a criminal suspect. Critics say
Carnivore makes it easy to capture electronic communications from
innocent people as well, the Journal said.
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ICIIU Comment: Vint Cerf is fatally compromised with the US
Intelligence establishment, including the CIA and the National
Security Concil as well as the FBI.
As to spying on innocent people as well as criminals, who's to say
who are the innocent and who the criminally guilty? The FBI? The
CIA? Vint Cerf? ICANN?
Perhaps it is the guilty who are spying on the innocent to keep them
from seeking justice.
Michael Sondow
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"In Germany, they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a trade unionist. Then they came for the homosexuals,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a homosexual.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak
up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me,
but by that time there was no one left to speak up."
--- Martin Niemoller, Dachau, 1945
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