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That sounds quite off. Did you notice my post regarding
the difference between the two systems (Carnivore & Echelon) this
morning? The government would need to know what they are intercepting
traffic to and from. Also, do you really think that they are dumb enough
to put one of their highly classified boxen into a co-lo type situation? I
seriously doubt it.
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K.Borndale
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5:06
PM
Subject: FW: FBI pushes Carnivore on
network providers after attacks
Thought that everybody might want to know what the FBI
was
up to after this:
-----Original Message-----
From: Declan
McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday,
September 12, 2001 10:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
FC: FBI pushes Carnivore on network providers after
attacks
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46747,00.html
Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore
By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2:00 a.m. Sep. 12, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Federal
police are reportedly increasing Internet
surveillance
after Tuesday's deadly attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon.
Just hours after three airplanes
smashed into the buildings in what
some U.S. legislators
have dubbed a second Pearl Harbor, FBI agents
began to
visit Web-based, e-mail firms and network providers,
according to engineers at those companies who spoke on condition
of
anonymity.
An administrator
at one major network service provider said that FBI
agents showed up at his workplace on Tuesday "with a couple
of
Carnivores, requesting permission to place them in
our core, along
with offers to actually pay for circuits
and costs."
The person declined to say for
publication what the provider's response was,
"but a lot of people" at
other firms were quietly going along with the FBI's
request. "I know that
they are getting a lot of 'OKs' because they made it a
point to mention
that they would only be covering our core for a few days,
while their 'main
boxes were being set up at the Tier 1 carriers' -- scary,"
the engineer
said.
[...]
Microsoft's
Hotmail service has also been the target of increased
federal attention, according to an engineer who works
there.
"Hotmail officials have been receiving calls
from the San Francisco
FBI office since mid-(Tuesday)
morning and are cooperating with their
expedited
requests for information about a few specific accounts,"
the
person said. "Most of the account names start with
the word 'Allah'
and contain messages in
Arabic."
[...]
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